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Addiction is a complex and treatable disease. It’s usually treated with counseling or other therapies. Sometimes you might need medicine along with behavioral therapies. Unfortunately many people with ...

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Alcohol contributes to more than 200 health conditions, fueling a staggering 175,000 deaths each year across the U.S. Globally, the toll reaches nearly 3 million lives. Despite these alarming numbers, ...

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Some researchers argue that the roles of social environment and personal choice have to be considered in order to make progress in treating people addicted to drugs. By Jan Hoffman The message ...

When people come to drug rehab, many need to detox for a week or more to get the drugs out of their system and to clear their heads. Once that happens, the real work of recovery begins. Problem is, ...

Addiction is often more than strictly behavioral or psychological. It can be genetic, social, and in the case of Opioid Use Disorder, the regular use of the drugs can change the very physiology of the ...

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