Sentences with phrase «said treating addiction»

Senator Shaheen said treating addiction begins with how one views the problem in the first place.

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Blankenship, a devout Christian who once struggled with sexual abuse, says his own ordeal has helped him to treat and «graduate» nearly 500 Christian men and women with similar addictions in the last five years.

Actually, many who treat addiction say Eminem is wrong, even those who emphasize exercise and sports to help others recover.

«Throwing them in jail and not treating their underlying issue, which is their addiction, doesn't help solve the problem with them and in truth, it costs us much more in dollars and cents to pay for it then to actually treat them,» said County Executive Mark Poloncarz, D - Erie County.

If we vote yes, and we proceed, Dutchess County will demolish that building of yesteryear and build in its place something that treats individuals with as great a degree of humanity and compassion as possible in the hopes of not incarcerating but, in fact, helping them, the individual within our care, to break the cycle of crime, address issues of mental illness and addiction,» says Molinaro.

Cahill said Schneiderman's new program to provide law enforcement agencies with an antidote to treat heroin overdoses at the scene is fine, but does not do enough to address the overall problem of heroin addiction.

«We need to tighten this up, but right now my concern is that we are looking to tax the very substances that we are using to treat people with drug addiction,» he said.

The Stony Point Police Department said it charged Cody Peluso, 32, of Carmel, with three counts of criminal possession of controlled substances for having suboxone, used to treat addiction to opioid drugs; alprazolam, an anti-anxiety drug, and anabolic steroids.

Wille said insurance companies should be forced to pay for one of three FDA - approved medications that treat opiate addiction.

Hochul said there are fewer restrictions on prescribing opioids then treating the addiction.

Cuomo has also proposed a tax on opioid prescription pain medicines that he says could bring in $ 125 million to help offset the cost of treating addiction to the drugs.

In addressing the symposium held in the AAAS Auditorium, Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Drug Abuse, said the opioid addiction problem «came out of the health care system» after it was determined that opioid prescription medicine was needed to treat chronic pain affecting more than 100 million Americans.

Among other initiatives needed are more rigorous analysis of the potency of illicit drugs being sold on the streets, information campaigns to inform the public of the analyses results and likely dangers, more treatment therapies to ease withdrawal symptoms, programs to get primary care doctors to treat and screen for addictions and wider distribution of Naltrexone, which can reverse an opioid overdose, said Ciccarone.

Professor Adeeba Kamarulzaman, an author on the study from University of Malaya, Malaysia, said: «In recent years, compulsory drug detention centres in Malaysia and across Asia have come under scrutiny and question over their lack of effectiveness in treating addiction and their human rights transgressions.

Two - thirds of respondents say their community is not doing enough to make treatment programs accessible and affordable or to find improved methods of treating addiction.

«It's not surprising that you don't get good outcomes by treating addiction as a criminal issue,» Lee said.

«The dogma has been that you can't treat a chemical addiction with another chemical,» says Markus Heilig of the US National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) in Bethesda, Maryland.

Harvey Weinstein is being treated for sex addiction, but many health professionals say it isn't a real illness and addiction - style therapy doesn't help

«When people come into treatment for drugs and alcohol, we are not treating another addiction that has a significant chance of eventually killing them, which is tobacco use,» said Guydish.

Pinpointing the exact neurons in the brain that drive the reward process also reveals potential new targets for treating addiction, Boyden said.

New Treatments Possible The similarities between obesity and addiction have led certain experts to say that the two conditions should be treated in the same manner.

The study helps explain a distinctly human mechanism of cognition, said the lead researchers at Brown University, and could be applied to studying and treating reward - seeking or punishment - avoidance conditions such as addiction or obsessive - compulsive disorder.

Understanding the dopamine transport system is another step toward possibly being able to treat drug addictions or diseases related to dopamine imbalance, Khoshbouei said.

«This study represents an important next step in understanding and treating problem drinking,» says Henry R. Kranzler, MD, professor of Psychiatry, director of Penn's Center for Studies of Addiction and lead author on the study.

Ultimately, he says, «I hope our findings will point the way toward future interventions that prevent or treat nicotine addiction, a topic of increasing importance in light of the expanding marketing of electronic nicotine delivery devices — e-cigarettes — to youthful nicotine nonusers.»

«It would be great to improve the storage and transport of dopamine for PD therapies, but we'll be just as excited to find compounds to be used in treating addiction, depression or other disorders,» says Miller.

But when your sugar treats become a habit, it becomes a bit harder to say «no» to, and then the sugar craving becomes an addiction.

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Griffiths said he hoped the findings would lead to new ways of preventing and treating addiction, a topic of growing importance as the market expands for electronic cigarettes.

I'm nervous about getting headaches, because truth I have found a sweet treat helps get rid of many of my headaches which probably says a lot about my sugar addiction.

He says: The solution to changing the illegal or unhealthy ritualized compulsive comfort - seeking behavior of opioid addiction is to address a person's adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) individually and in group therapy; treat people with respect; provide medication assistance in the form of buprenorphine, an opioid used to treat opioid addiction; and help them find a ritualized compulsive comfort - seeking behavior that won't kill them or put them in jail.

There's a big difference between sex addiction and regular porn consumption, he says, adding, «If I'm treating a 40 - year - old man who's in a relationship where there's not enough sexual intimacy, and he's masturbating a lot to pornography, I don't automatically assume that's a porn issue.»