Medical professionals quickly saw the efficacy of methadone as a treatment option for heroin and morphine addiction stemming from battlefield injuries. ... Methadone is typically prescribed by medical professionals for the treatment of heroin and other opiate addiction, based on the longer-lasting effects of the drug as a deterrent to illegal use of narcotics. ... The American Medical Association (2010) and the American Society of Addiction Medication (2000) concluded that methadone treatment as a harm-reduction protocol and as a means of controlling heroin, morphine, and opiate addiction tend...

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Cannabis sativa, most commonly known as marijuana, has been used for recreational and medical purposes for thousands of years. ... In over twelve thousand studies on marijuana, the drug has never been proven to be effective for treatment (Lapey, "Marijuana is NOT"); nevertheless, this controversial debate over legalizing marijuana for medical use parallels with another dilemma in history. ... He states, "The public made a great outcry that the medical establishment was withholding a miracle drug. ... If medical treatment continues to be based on safe and useful drugs, marijuana will remain ill...

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Countless researches have been done over marijuana's medical uses and the conclusion is that marijuana is not the best available treatment for a patient. Years ago, the American Medical Association considered the therapeutic potentials and hazards of marijuana. ... For example, there are safer and more effective medicines for people who need it as a treatment for chemotherapy-induced nausea. ... Marijuana is not useful as a treatment for chemotherapy-induced nausea. ... This situation is most likely the same with the majority of marijuana's other medical uses. ...

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The fundamental goal of all treatment programs is to enable the patient to permanently abstain from substance abuse; short-term goals are to minimize the medical and social consequences of drug use, and help recovering addicts function normally in a clean society. Over the past few decades, studies conducted by the National Institute of Drug Abuse show that treatment does in fact work to reduce drug intake. ... An example of a long-term method would be methadone maintenance outpatient treatment for heroin addicts or residential therapeutic community treatment. ... Heroin addicts may go t...

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Much of what has been found to treat Vicodin addiction is learned from the treatment of heroin addiction. Both are opiates so the treatments are very similar in regards to how the addiction process works. ... Subject to individual tolerance, many medical experts believe dependence or addiction can occur within one to four weeks at higher doses of Vicodin (DEA, 2007). ... These people are not "drug addicts" in the stereotypical sense, but people with real medical conditions who find themselves in the same situation as drug addicts. ... The medical community lacked the desire to find a treatm...

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Subsequent Supreme Court decisions made it illegal for doctors to prescribe any narcotic to addicts; many doctors who prescribed maintenance doses as part of an addiction treatment plan were jailed, and soon all attempts at treatment were abandoned. ... The act dealt with prevention and treatment of drug abuse as well as control of drug traffic. ... Morphine , a strictly controlled opiate, and synthetic opiates, such as fentanyl, are most often abused by people in the medical professions, who have easier access to these drugs. ... It is seldom used illicitly except by doctors and other medical...

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The cognitive-behavioral model deals with both internal and external learning processes in the development and treatment of psychological disorders. The cognitive-behavioral theory has helped with the development in the treatment of psychological disorders, this model has been criticized many times for its limited perspective, on environmental causes and treatments. ... Alcohol is not a moral issue, but a medical one, and alcohol abuse is not a sign of character flaws, but is a symptom of a physiological condition. Many health professionals share the viewpoint that clinical psychologists tend ...

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In attempts to prevent withdrawal symptoms and eliminate the drug hunger,methadone treatment facilities offer a legal method for an addict to obtain their fix. ... The Internet site DRCNet.org list a few of the good points about methadone treatment: Methadone maintenance has a unique ability to attract and retain heroin addicts in treatment on a voluntary basis. Methadone treatment is associated with a prompt and dramatic reductionin heroin use. ... Criminal activity is reduced sharply in association with methadone treatment.... Methadone maintenance in society ...

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According to a study done by Saitz "85,000 deaths, along with substantial disability from medical and psychiatric consequences, injuries and "secondhand" effects (ex: motor vehicle crashes) are attributed to the use of alcohol" (Saitz, 2005). ... Alcohol dependence has a much more pronounced medical effect on women than on men. Medical problems due to alcohol dependence, involving brain, heart and liver damage are more severe and advance quicker in women than men (Stephens, 2007). ... There are two main treatment methods for alcoholism that are the source of controversy t...

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Both of these issues are causing the nation substantial distribution of resources in revenue, health care personnel and treatment resources. ... In addition to cancer, liver cirrhosis, and loss of memory function, addiction leads to several debilitating side effects and medical conditions. Type-1 Diabetes is a disease of the body that affects physiological makeup and recovery is not possible without further medical advancement. ... Furthermore, there is no cure for Type 1 diabetes but with treatment those who have the disease can live longer and healthier lives. ...

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The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States. There is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision. ... Firstly, cannabis has been proven to have medical value by thousands of peer-reviewed studies. ... Schedule II drugs, on the contrary, include cocaine, opium, poppy, morphine, and codeine which have a medically accepted use. ... Ultimately, an individual has the choice to seek medical assistance through rehabilitative services or psychiatric help. ...

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The addict and his family will benefit from an effective and appropriate treatment program. ... Treatment may include a combination of programs, facilities, services and therapies including pharmacologically based treatment. Depending on the nature of the addiction and personal needs, the medical community strongly suggest that an individual considered the following options and combination thereof: 1. a twelve-step program, such as Alcoholics Anonymous or Rational Recovery, 2. an outpatient treatment program offering individual or group therapy, 3. inpatient treatment at a facility, suc...

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During the same time, the center began to offer treatment of chemical dependency. ... Throughout its history, the facility and treatment programs catered to those who do not have medical insurance. ... When this addict seeks treatment, he or she is admitted to a private treatment facility that is usually staffed with the highest quality of treatment professional. ... For those without insurance, treatment is stringent. In a facility such as Oriana House, the average treatment plan finds a heroin addict receiving a total of five days of treatment, at an average cost of $350.00 per day, per cale...

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Therefore, all these types of addictive substances should be avoided as much as possible and if this type of addiction is detected, medical help should be sought. ... Therefore, all these addictive behaviors should be kept under control and if a person is not able to do so, they should seek medical help. ... Therefore, this kind of addictions can be brought under control with proper medical treatment or else it can lead to major problems and dangers to the person with the addiction and also the people around them. ...

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Due to the overwhelming caseloads processed through the court system, the needs of the offender for additional treatment (i.e., drug addiction, mental illness, alcohol abuse) find themselves incarcerated in an already overcrowded jail or prison with little or no treatment programs to address their issues. One point of view to take is offenders do not have constitutional right to treatment. ... Taxpayer money is spent housing, clothing, feeding and medical care on offenders in jails and prisons that are not providing much in the way of being a productive citizen. ... Each court is unique in t...

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Despite medical advocacy, there is a large section of the population that negatively regards SEPs as a decriminalization of drug policy. ... By reducing the number of infections in the most vulnerable population we can reduce the number of deaths, help IUDs get testing and treatment as well as reducing the overall health costs associated with infected persons in the population....

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Strong evidence suggests that the law was instituted in order to prevent casual or non-medical users, frequently called dope fiends from obtaining the drugs outside of medical practice. ... Gazzaniga, professor of neuroscience at Dartmouth Medical School, puts it, There is a base rate of drug abuse, and it is [presently] achieved one way or another (121). ... Furthermore, Dutch efforts to license legal heroin use quickly ran aground amid huge increases in crime and overdose deaths, despite many efforts of treatment and information programs. ...

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Strong evidence suggests that the law was instituted in order to prevent casual or non-medical users, frequently called dope fiends from obtaining the drugs outside of medical practice. ... Gazzaniga, professor of neuroscience at Dartmouth Medical School, puts it, There is a base rate of drug abuse, and it is [presently] achieved one way or another (121). ... Furthermore, Dutch efforts to license legal heroin use quickly ran aground amid huge increases in crime and overdose deaths, despite many efforts of treatment and information programs. ...

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Addiction is characterized by preoccupation with the drug, hoarding and abuse for non-medical purposes ("OxyContin,"" 2540). ... In treatment of overdose primary attention should be given to the re-establishment of the air way and institution of assisted or controlled ventilation ("OxyContin,"" 2540). ...

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