Why Alcohol and Drug Addiction Treatments Fail – Experts Say

Why Alcohol And Drug Addiction Treatments Fail – Experts Say — http://www.truthofaddiction.com Alcohol and drug addiction treatments have found not to be based on science or evidence. The best methods for treating addict…

FDA Expands Access to Overdose Antidote to Stem Opiate Addiction Epidemic
Some experts say that doctors and shifting social norms about treating every illness with a medication bear part of the burden for the current epidemic of addiction, since sales of prescription pain killers have increased 300% since 1999, and made the …
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Change way we treat addiction
Consider these statistics from national survey data on Massachusetts: 9.6 percent of our citizens age 12 and older were either dependent on or abused drugs or alcohol. That figure rises to 23.4 percent among 18-to-25 year-olds. We know that hundreds …
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Research finds many students have some level of alcohol dependency, few seek …
According to a study done by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 19 percent of college students meet the criteria for alcohol dependency but only five percent seek treatment. Amanda Addy, alcohol and drug prevention specialist for …
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