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Addiction medicine
About: Addiction medicine is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1070 publications have been published within this topic receiving 23685 citations.
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TL;DR: It is concluded that risky substance use is a major public health problem that can be ameliorated through evidence-based public health measures, including education about the disease and its risk factors, screenings, and clinical interventions, and that addiction can be treated and managed effectively within routine health care practice and specialty care.
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01 Jan 2003
TL;DR: Recognizing addiction as a chronic, relapsing brain disorder characterized by compulsive drug seeking and use can impact society's overall health and social policy strategies and help diminish the health andsocial costs associated with drug abuse and addiction.
Abstract: Scientific advances over the past 20 years have shown that drug addiction is a chronic, relapsing disease that results from the prolonged effects of drugs on the brain. As with many other brain diseases, addiction has embedded behavioral and social-context aspects that are important parts of the disorder itself. Therefore, the most effective treatment approaches will include biological, behavioral, and social-context components. Recognizing addiction as a chronic, relapsing brain disorder characterized by compulsive drug seeking and use can impact society’s overall health and social policy strategies and help diminish the health and social costs associated with drug abuse and addiction.
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TL;DR: Although the provision of timely addiction treatment appears to have increased throughout the 1990s, accessibility problems persist in programs that care for indigent patients and in methadone maintenance programs.
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This study examined organization-level characteristics associated with the accessibility of outpatient addiction treatment.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors review clinical care issues that are related to illicit and therapeutic opioid use among pregnant women and women in the postpartum period and outline the major responsibilities of obstetrics providers who care for these patients during the antepartum, intrapartum and post-partum periods.
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TL;DR: The DSM-III-R criteria for chemical dependency can be easily applied to sexual addiction as mentioned in this paper and the commonalities include obsession, denial, loss of control, compulsive behavior, continuation despite adverse consequences, and escalation of the behaviors.
Abstract: An ongoing controversy among addictionists is whether to accept “process” or behavioral addictions such as sexual addiction as within the scope of addiction medicine. This article delineates the controversy and reviews data that support the commonalities between behavioral and chemical dependencies. Similarities include obsession, denial, loss of control, compulsive behavior, continuation despite adverse consequences, and escalation of the behaviors. The DSM-III-R criteria for chemical dependency can be easily applied to sexual addiction. Another commonality is the refractoriness to treatment with traditional psychotherapeutic modalities versus the responsiveness to addiction treatment and 12-step mutual-help groups. Sexual addiction is of importance to addictionists because: 1) it is an addiction; 2) many chemically dependent patients are also addicted to sex and may relapse to chemical use because of untreated sex addiction; 3) sexual addiction contributes to the AIDS epidemic; and 4) compulsiv...
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