Addiction Medicine: Closing the Gap between Science and Practice

more other substances and 17.3 percent have addiction involving multiple substances.^38 Emerging research also suggests that oth ...

Referrals to specialty addiction care should be made to trained and credentialed addiction physician specialists.* 42 Screening ...

The Importance of Tailored Interventions and Treatment ........................................... Each life phase presents uniq ...

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Less than Half of Treatment Admissions Result in Treatment Completion ................ In 2008,* less than half (42.1 percent) o ...

every person in America.^77 Nearly one-third (32.3 percent) of all hospital inpatient costs are attributable to substance use an ...

development of pharmaceutical treatments and the adoption of existing pharmaceutical therapies; and a lack of adequate insurance ...

to coincide with appropriate definitions of risky substance use, and assessment instruments should be adjusted or developed to m ...

justice and adult corrections services that receive public funding; and that patients who screen positive for risky use or a pot ...

 Implement the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) recommendation to create a single institute addressing substance use and a ...

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Chapter II What Is Addiction? Addiction* is a complex brain disease with significant behavioral characteristics.^1 In many but n ...

Addiction Is a Brain Disease.............................................................................................. Advan ...

The areas of the brain affected by this complex disease are among those that are responsible for survival--including the areas a ...

addicted individual is so weakened that even when he or she wants to cut down or stop using an addictive substance, it becomes e ...

addiction.* 47 Adopted children with biological parents who have addiction involving alcohol are at least twice as likely as are ...

People who grow up in homes in which parents routinely expose their children to smoking, excessive drinking or other drug use ar ...

ischemic heart disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.^89 Alcohol consumption contributes to diseases that are among ...

Models for Understanding Addiction ................................................................................ The model fo ...

addiction--and to the emerging “crack epidemic” in the late 1980s, substance use and addiction increasingly were criminalized.^1 ...