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Psychiatric Medicine and Addiction Recovery

October 2nd, 2008 by CNS

Research in the 1950s showed that animals – mammals in particular – compulsively used and abused the same drugs as humans. Yet other psycoactive drugs – the ones used for treatment of mental health conditions – did not cause the same compulsive use patterns. Dr. Darryl Inaba expands on the use of  these medications, and the ways they affect people with substance use disorders – commonly knows as dual-diagnosis or co-occurring disorders.

 
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This entry was posted on Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 at 9:27 pm and is filed under Compulsive Behaviors, Podcasts, Treatment & Testing, Uppers. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Psychiatric Medicine and Addiction Recovery”

  1. sam2008 says:
    November 4, 2008 at 7:05 am

    Addiction is generally associated with increased drug tolerance. In physiological terms, addiction is not necessarily associated with substance abuse since this form of addiction can result from using medication as prescribed by a doctor.
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    Sam
    Drug Rehabs

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