Recent Posts Tagged With 'addiction treatment'

• Addiction Science and the Problem of Perception

  Posted on Wednesday July 15th, 2009 at 11:08 in addiction treatment, myth of the chemical cure, addiction pills, myths about addiction

  Why don’t mental health professionals get it?Dr. Joanna Moncrieff, identified by the BBC News as a “mental health expert,” gave the world the benefit of her view on the use of drugs for mental disorders in a July 15 article titled “The Myth o...

• Addiction Touches Almost Everyone

  Posted on Wednesday June 17th, 2009 at 12:47 in drug treatment, george soros, addiction treatment, health care reform, drug addiction survey

  75% of Americans know someone who is addicted.A new survey by Lake Research Partners, sponsored by George Soros’s Open Society Institute and presented at the June 16 Conference of Mayors meeting in Providence, R.I., reveals that three of every fou...

• Doctors Still Don’t Understand Addiction

  Posted on Thursday December 11th, 2008 at 13:41 in addiction treatment, bad doctors, addiction medicine, addiction doctors

  Med schools ignore major health problem.If there is one thing most workers in the field of addiction treatment can agree upon, it is that doctors are inadequately trained to deal with addicted patients.Researchers at the Boston Medical Center recentl...

• Drugs on the Ballot

  Posted on Friday October 10th, 2008 at 13:45 in medical marijuana, drug war, addiction treatment, marijuana legalization, marijuana ballot initiatives

  States to vote on drug policy proposals.The Drug War Chronicle has done an excellent job of rounding up the various drug policy initiatives that will appear on state ballots in November. The majority of these initiatives concern marijuana decriminali...

• McCain on Drugs

  Posted on Thursday October 2nd, 2008 at 10:41 in war on drugs, drug war, drug policy, addiction treatment, mccain drugs

  Full speed ahead on the Drug War.One issue largely missing in action during the presidential campaign has been the Drug War, and all the policy implications for addiction treatment that go with it. Our thanks go out to OnTheIssues blog for compiling ...

• Addiction Treatment: Who is the Client?

  Posted on Wednesday June 25th, 2008 at 11:24 in Drug Rehab, drug addiction, drug treatment, addiction treatment

  The Overselling of Drug Rehab.Professor David Clark, who runs the Wired In recovery website in the U.K., recently posted several passages from William L. White's "Slaying the Dragon: The History of Addiction Treatment and Recovery in America."Accordi...

• Soros Funds Addiction Initiative

  Posted on Friday February 15th, 2008 at 00:24 in drug addiction, alcohol treatment, george soros, addiction treatment

  Urges insurance companies to close “treatment gap.” In a move designed to jump-start a reluctant insurance industry, philanthropist George Soros is pushing an addiction initiative aimed at the estimated 20 million Americans who cannot afford trea...