Sentences with phrase «treat drug addiction»

Addiction Treatment - Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) has been shown to effectively treat drug addiction and alcohol abuse.

VR games can treat drug addiction and maybe help solve the opioid epidemic.

Most commonly used with those who have some sort of identified brain imbalance, it has also been used to treat drug addiction, depression, and ADHD.

Naltrexone is relatively inexpensive and has been used for years to treat drug addiction, but it has only been used off - label to ease fibromyalgia symptoms.

Within the fields of microbiology and immunology, neurologic diseases, neuropharmacology, behavioral, cognitive and developmental neuroscience, and psychiatric disorders, the center's research programs are seeking ways to: develop vaccines for infectious and noninfectious diseases; understand the basic neurobiology and genetics of social behavior and develop new treatment strategies for improving social functioning in social disorders such as autism; interpret brain activity through imaging; increase understanding of progressive illnesses such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases; unlock the secrets of memory; treat drug addiction; determine how the interaction between genetics and society shape who we are; and advance knowledge about the evolutionary links between biology and behavior.

Dr. Britt's studies have helped reveal circuits that are responsible for habitual behavior, which could be suitable targets for pharmacotherapies designed to treat drug addiction.

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

Treating drug addiction as a health issue rather than through law enforcement would help.

Through thousands of research studies, counseling and therapy have been shown to be the standard for treating Drug Addiction, Substance Abuse Disorder, Alcohol Addiction, and Behavioral Addictions.

Not exact matches

Drugs like buprenorphine treat addiction, and naloxone reverses overdoses, but these treatments are often not covered by insurance providers.

They would also require better management of patients treated for drug addiction, and convert some recently closed state prisons to treatment centers.

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

Gallivan has suggested using it to treat patients with drug 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.

Congressman Brian Higgins speaks about the proposed TREAT Act, which is designed to provide more access to medications to battle drug addiction.

Schumer called the bill a critical first step in the fight against heroin and opioids, expanding the availability of naloxone — also known as narcan — to law enforcement and first responders, improving prescription drug monitoring programs, shifting resources to identifying and treating incarcerated people suffering from addiction, and prohibiting the Department of Education from questioning students about prior drug convictions on financial aid forms.

The conversation dredged up everything from the lack of front - line doctors, nurses and therapists to treat addiction, the lack of long - term treatment beds, and the need to better market recovery services, to the simple fact that more potent drugs are hitting the streets and killing people before anyone has time to save them.

The report also calls on the government to admit the current drugs laws have failed, and addiction is better treated as a health rather than a criminal problem.

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

Since the equality vote Hoylman, Assemblywoman Deborah Glick (D - Manhattan) and a host of other Democratic legislators have tried to pass GENDA, a bill guaranteeing protections for non-gender-conforming individuals, and a bill to ban gay conversion therapy — a debunked process by which therapists use talk therapy, apply shock treatment or treat the individual as though they suffer an addiction akin to alcohol or drug dependence.

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.

The National Institute on Drug Abuse is pursuing a mix of approaches that include developing non-opioid pain medicines, conducting research on vaccines that may blunt the impact of fentanyl and its related offshoots, getting public health organizations to increase the availability and use of medications already available to treat opioid addiction and getting medications such as buprenorphine and naloxone, which suppress withdrawal symptoms and ease cravings, into the hands emergency room doctors dealing with patients with opioid addictions.

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.

Hep C patients being treated for opioid addiction achieved high rates of sustained virologic response after 12 weeks of therapy with elbasvir - grazoprevir compared to those taking placebo for 12 weeks before beginning the drug treatment.

According to the authors, these results suggest that drug use should be removed as a barrier to interferon - free HCV therapy for patients being treated for opioid addiction.

«Not only did CGP3466B help confirm the details of cocaine's action, but it also may become the first drug approved to treat cocaine addiction.»

In the heady postwar years, hundreds of promising studies were conducted in the United States, Canada, and Europe on the use of LSD and other psychedelics, like peyote, to treat such psychiatric maladies as schizophrenia, autism, drug addiction, alcoholism, and chronic depression.

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.

Approximately 600,000 people are detained in compulsory drug detention centres without due process in East and South East Asia each year, despite reported human rights abuses and lack of evidence that they effectively treat addiction.

The agency has ongoing research examining the effectiveness of drugs such as methadone, buprenorphine, and naltrexone that are used to wean people off of stronger opioids, as well as research developing alternatives such as vaccines and transcranial magnetic stimulation to treat opioid addictions.

We may be on the verge of understanding, treating or even preventing life - crushing brain - based diseases — including one that affects an estimated 23 million Americans: drug and alcohol addiction.

Are there differences in trying to treat alcoholism versus other drug addictions or combinations of addictions?

The experimental therapy, which involves administering a drug currently used in cancer therapy trials, treats cocaine addiction by inhibiting memories responsible for cravings.

But so far no drug has proven effective in treating any aspect of cocaine addiction.

IT IS considered a soft drug, but increasing numbers of people are seeking help for cannabis addiction — and there's growing interest in finding ways to treat them.

Jones added that hope is on the horizon through preclinical trials that are testing several amphetamine - like drugs for effectiveness in treating cocaine addiction.

«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.

So in effect, if we could treat sleep loss in drug addicts, we might be able to take away some of the side effects from withdrawal and also curb addiction to some extent.

All raise hopes that doctors could soon have a new way to treat addiction, and not just to drugs and alcohol.

«While the association between chronic pain and drug addiction has been observed in prior studies, this study goes one step further to quantify how many of these patients are using these substances specifically to treat chronic pain.

Karim Nader, a behavioral neuroscientist at McGill University in Montreal, called the new research «promising» for treating addiction, adding that he doesn't know of a one - time treatment that causes rodents to stop taking drugs for long periods of time.

In a follow - on project to be conducted in collaboration with MedUni Vienna's Institute of Pharmacology and Center for Addiction Research and Science (AddRess) and, in particular, with drug and dopamine expert Harald Sitte, amongst others, the objective is now to find out whether, and, if so, how, activation of DeltaFosB can be prevented and how this highly promising starting point can be used to treat the onset of addictive behaviour.

With an estimated 60,000 drug overdose deaths in 2016 alone, the researchers emphasize the need for the American health care system to embrace medications such as methadone to treat opioid use disorder, provide addiction treatment in primary care clinics and develop non-addictive alternatives for chronic pain.

«A better understanding of the brain region and cell type - specific binding targets of Hnrnph1 will tell us more about the function of this gene and possibly identify new therapeutic strategies for minimizing risk and treating psychostimulant addiction — a disorder for which there is currently no FDA - approved drug,» explained corresponding author Camron Bryant, PhD, assistant professor of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics & Psychiatry at BUSM.

Deflating gabapentinoids» hype as an opioid alternative will leave many physicians back where they started — with an immediate need for drugs that treat pain without the addiction risks of opioids.

The work could open new avenues for treating disorders both in cases where people can not properly initiate an action, such as Parkinson's, and in ones where they can not stop performing certain actions, as in OCD or drug addiction.

Jones added that hope is on the horizon through preclinical trials that are testing several drugs for effectiveness in treating cocaine addiction.

Dr. Linus Pauling and others have promoted megadoses of Vitamin C for cancer while others have used large doses to treat schizophrenia and drug addiction.