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PTSD and Substance Abuse [PDF]

open access: possible, 2011
Abstract : Substance use disorders (SUD) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are prominent disorders among Service Members (SMs). These disorders sometimes go untreated due to SMs lack of awareness, access to care, or stigma about accessing care. Seeking Safety (SS) is an evidence-based model for comorbid SUD/PTSD.
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Substance abuse and polyhydramnios

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2002
Maternal drug use is known to have fetal central nervous system depressive effects as manifested by decreased biophysical profile scores. Drug effects on the amniotic fluid index (AFI), one variable of the biophysical profile, are not well documented.
Tuan M. Nguyen   +2 more
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Substance Abuse in Pregnancy

Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2019
Addiction is a primary, chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory and related circuitry. Like many other chronic diseases, addiction often involves cycles of relapse and remission. It is key that clinicians understand it as such and treat it appropriately with evidence-based interventions including medication-assisted treatment.
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Psychotherapy for Substance Abuse

Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 1986
Professional psychotherapy can provide benefits for substance abuse patients. It is probably most helpful for specific types of patients and only under certain conditions. Work that carefully defines these patient subtypes and conditions is only just beginning.
A. Thomas McLellan   +3 more
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CULTURE AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE

Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 2001
Although inhaling is commonly thought of as a novel form of drug use, it has been customary for centuries with finely ground tobacco or with a wide variety of hallucinogenic powdered plant derivatives in tropical South America (de Rios). Nose pipes facilitate snuffing in some cultures, and in others, drugs are blown, by turn, through tubes into the ...
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Management of Substance Abuse

Pediatrics In Review, 2002
1. Caroline J. Barangan, MD* 2. Elizabeth M. Alderman, MD† 1. *Fellow, Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics 2. †Associate Professor, Clinical Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, New York, NY After completing this article, readers should be able to: 1.
Elizabeth M. Alderman   +1 more
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Substances of Abuse

1986
Substance abuse is one of the major problems of our modern society, both in industrialized and developing nations. In the United States over the past 20 years there has been an epidemic of substance abuse (particularly narcotics, marijuana and cocaine).
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Acupuncture for substance abuse

Current Psychiatry Reports, 2003
Acupuncture, in the form of insertion of needles bilaterally in the outer ears, is widely used for the treatment of addiction in the US. However, support for this form of treatment from controlled studies has not been consistent. This article examines recent clinical trials of acupuncture for addiction treatment, with a goal of conveying to the reader ...
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Substance Abuse and Prostitution

Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 1982
A study of 200 street prostitutes documented a high prevalence of alcohol and drug abuse in their family of origin, during the drift into prostitution and as part of prostitution. Additionally, the study documented a high prevalence of substance abuse among the child molesters and rapists of the subjects.
Teri Lynch   +2 more
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Perinatal Substance Abuse

The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 1992
This article reviews medical, obstetrical, and neonatal complications of perinatal substance abuse. The psychological and social issues commonly encountered in drug-abusing pregnant women are also discussed. Treatment considerations that take into account the complex biopsychosocial parameters are presented.
Mark C. Hyatt, William H. Miller
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