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People with addictions to stimulants tend to choose instant gratification or a smaller but sooner reward over a future benefit, even if the future reward is greater. Reduced value of a future reward, called “delay discounting” by neuroscientists, is the
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Problem drinkers in the general population may reduce the amount of alcohol they consume over a period of years but not to the level of the average adult, according to a new study in the November issue of the Journal
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The new version of the Addiction Severity Index (ASI) gives health professionals the opportunity to design an integral and personalised plan of assistance for patients suffering disorders due to substance abuse. Developed by the University of Pennsylvania (USA) in the
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Drug addiction experts have reacted with horror at the revelation that a controversial American charity worker who pays addicts to be sterilised is setting up a franchise in Britain. Project Prevention, which operates out of North Carolina, has stopped more
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Paying drug addicts to be sterilised is exploitative and wrong, say critics of just such a scheme that runs in the US. Jane Beresford talks to the woman behind Project Prevention. If you call Project Prevention’s helpline it’s likely that
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A propos your World Report on naltrexone implants and addiction treatment in Russia (July 3, p 13),1 suicide and overdose deaths after detoxification are always a concern, but we know of no evidence that naltrexone treatment increases those risks. In
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Mori Krantz and Philip Mehler (Aug 12, p 556)1 write about preventable cardiac risks of methadone treatment. They state: “In 1973, clinicians in New York sought an explanation for a perceived increase in the risk of sudden death in heroin
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The use of amphetamines, cocaine, and heroin by young people in the UK and other countries has produced a substantial demand for drug-misuse treatment over the past several decades. In Community Treatment of Drug Misuse: More than Methadone, Nicholas Seivewright
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Sir Jeff Ward and colleagues (Jan 16, p 221)1 describe heroin dependence as a chronic disease for which patients need to be under treatment for many years. They review the efficacy of one of the most extensively used therapies, methadone
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