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Bulletin : Périodique
Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol.305, n°1 - January 5, 2011
B. M. KUEHN | 2011Article : Périodique
When patients with HIV infection also are addicted to opioids, treating both disorders simultaneously may help improve outcomes and reduce the spread of HIV or other infections transmitted through needle sharing or risky sexual behaviors associa[...]Article : Périodique
A quarter-century ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched an international effort to develop validated screening and brief intervention protocols for excessive alcohol use in primary care. Since then, an extensive body of literature ha[...]Article : Périodique
Despite a growing body of evidence that integrated care is important in treating individuals with addiction and comorbid psychiatric disorders, such care remains in short supply. But efforts by scientists and policy makers aim to improve access [...]Article : Périodique
Methadone was involved in more than 30% of overdose deaths linked to the use of prescription painkillers in 2009, despite the drug making up only about 2% of painkiller prescriptions that year, according to a report from the US Centers for Disea[...]Article : Périodique
Forty years and countless political firestorms after it was first introduced, methadone maintenance for the treatment of opioid addiction remains a standard therapy in the field of addiction treatment. The publication on August 23, 1965, of posi[...]Article : Périodique
Many individuals with opioid addictions who might otherwise go untreated are seeking office-based buprenorphine treatment and many are having positive outcomes, according to emerging data on the 3-year-old treatment program. But challenges remai[...]Article : Périodique
Campaigns to make pain control a priority have succeeded in raising patient and physician awareness of the need for analgesics, and now opioid pain medications are among the most prescribed drugs in the United States. However, this positive tren[...]Article : Périodique
B. M. KUEHN, Intervieweur |"It becomes much cheaper and easier to sustain a habit with heroin," said Fishman, who is the medical director of the Maryland Treatment Centers and an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University, in an interview.Article : Périodique
Research on the use of opioid pain medications is beginning to provide some guidance on curbing abuse of these powerful prescription drugs while allowing patients in need to receive adequate treatment for pain. Greater recognition of the importa[...]Article : Périodique
"I don't think I would have done that cocaine, if I wasn't high that night," said Leibowitz, who is now 25 years old and has been clean for about 2 years since undergoing court-ordered treatment. Leibowitz said he is working toward a degree in s[...]Article : Périodique
Drug use disorders remain a prevalent problem globally, yet most countries do not offer evidence-based treatment for these disorders, according to a new database set up by the World Health Organization (WHO) to track the availability of services[...]