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Once a month I set aside a day to read the latest research about addiction in the leading medical journals. For the last ten years I’ve watched this knowledge expand. What was once a trickle, then a stream, is now a flood, and the research is pouring out so fast that it is difficult to [...]
Substance abuse behavior appears to have multiple interrelated causes. Predisposing genetic and neurobiological factors interact with family environment dynamics and early trauma to create a personal internal milieu that is primed and sensitized for craving and addictive behaviors. This is compounded by frequent concurrent psychiatrically significant diagnoses resulting in what is referred to as dual [...]
Using Neuro-Imaging Techniques and a Biopsychosocial Model for Healing
The focus of this article is to explore and introduce recent work in the field of addiction recovery as it relates to the neuro-cognitive dimension. This article is the first of a series of articles focused on identifying and then developing a treatment program for addiction [...]
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