Depression Treatment and Adolescent Drug Abuse

Published May 25, 2013

Depression Treatment and Adolescent Drug Abuse – Treating adolescents for major depression can also reduce their chances of abusing drugs later on, a secondary benefit found in a five-year study of nearly 2…

Dangerous Drug Creating New Addicts

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“Florida is on the peak of an outbreak of a new heroin epidemic,” said Jim Hall, director of the Center for the Study and Prevention of Substance Abuse at Nova South Eastern University. Those switching from opiates to heroin tend to be in the white …
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Health Week: Has psychiatry shot its bolt?

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The American Psychiatric Association released its long-awaited updated diagnostic bible — the 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manuel of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) — and was immediately assailed for lowering diagnostic thresholds seemingly …
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