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Maia Szalavitz, a journalist who covers the treatment industry — most notably with her 2006 book, Help At Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids — said that coercive techniques are still seen as treatment. “Addiction is a condition that is incredibly stigmatized, and because we still see addiction as crime ...
Gabor Maté CM (born January 6, 1944) is a Canadian physician. He has a background in family practice and a special interest in childhood development, trauma [1] and potential lifelong impacts on physical and mental health, including autoimmune disease, cancer, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), [2] and addictions.
The book introduces a man who lost everything to heroin and drug abuse and then recovered. His transformation came after he made decisions to dedicate his life to help others overcome addiction. [24] Ryan is an advocate of a 12-step peer support addiction treatment of addicts convicted of drug-related crimes.
Kimberly Sue Young O'Mara [1] (September 9, 1965 – February 28, 2019) was a psychologist and expert on Internet addiction disorder and online behavior. [2] She founded the Center for Internet Addiction in 1995 [3] while she was a psychology professor at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford. [4]
In 1983 Martin and Mrs. Mae Abraham founded Father Martin’s Ashley, a non-profit center dedicated to the treatment of the chemically addicted, located in Havre de Grace, Maryland. Martin also continued to work within the church and participated in the International Conference on Drugs and Alcohol sponsored by the Vatican in 1991.
Now, as she thinks back on using while she was incarcerated, she recalls, "It was like, okay, you have to scrounge. You have to find it, really kind of get into the groove of who has what in prison."
Hart opposes the brain disease model of addiction dominant in the field, which holds that addiction is a brain disorder. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, states that visible differences in the brains of addicts helps explain the nature of compulsive drug usage. Hart states that most studies show that drug users ...
One way to explain the stubbornness of the epidemic is to look at the availability of the maintenance medication buprenorphine, sold most commonly under the brand name Suboxone. Taking the medication (or methadone), along with counseling, is an opioid addict’s best chance for recovery, public health experts say.