Drug addiction may not require a habitual relationship with a substance, suggests findings from a new model of cocaine administration in rats that better captures the human experience of obtaining ...

First, that addiction is a disability. Second, that the primary focus of addiction policy should be providing addicted persons with reasonable accommodations. The disability model is not novel.

In standard brain disease models of addiction, the neurotoxic effects of abused psychoactive substances are thought to cause brain changes that spur compulsive cravings for drink, smokes, or dope.

It matters because addiction does not occur in a vacuum, nor does it drop down from outer space. Drug addiction, for many, is a symptom of an undetected, underlying disorder, which needs to be ...

Mental Health & Addiction An architect of the ‘Minnesota Model,’ Rev. Gordon Grimm held fast to Hazelden’s mission by Andy Steiner 01/17/2020 ...

Journal article authored in the New England Journal of Medicine on January 27, 2016 expresses continued support of the disease model of addiction, moving the mark forward in addiction medicine.

Society for Neuroscience. "Rat models of opioid use and addiction explore risk of abuse." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 6 November 2018. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2018 / 11 / 181106171803.htm>.

Wiers points out that the view of addiction as a chronic brain disease, in which relapse is the norm, is heavily based on studies of patients who, for the most part, did relapse after treatment ...

SW: As addiction afflicts both individual and family, recovery ideally should involve the family as well. Accordingly, RCA’s comprehensive treatment model considers both as part of a larger system.