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What Are the CRAFFT Questions?
Discussion As tweens and teenagers continue to develop toward adulthood, they begin to engage in adult behaviors and take on the risks of those behaviors. Adolescent interviews are often guided using the acronyms HEADSS or SSHADESS to help elicit the adolescent’s strengths, weaknesses, behaviors and potential risks. HEADSS stands for home, education, activities, drugs/depression, suicide and sexuality. SSHADESS is slightly more expansive and stands for strengths, school, home, activities, drugs/substance abuse, emotion/depression, sexuality and safety. “…[A]lcohol use is often the first risk behavior in ...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - July 22, 2012 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Donna M. D'Alessandro, M.D. Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news

Science's Key To Life? Domestication
Home Economics was a silly little high school class but at core it was about the deepest most profound challenge we all face: How to manage our loves, addictions and dependencies? In a word, our domestications. Domestication Dynamics research shows how living things like us learn to do whatever it takes to maintain access to what we've have grown dependent upon. read more
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - July 22, 2012 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr. Jeremy Sherman Tags: Behavioral Economics Relationships Resilience Social Life Comfort zone deference domesticated species domestication domicile domiciles feral animals generations happy home home economics household chore joke loyalty mortg Source Type: news

Nurses use video conference to help patients
“The Mississauga Halton LHIN has invested over $200,000 to hire three nurses who will provide mental health and addiction care and support using video conferencing equipment. Two telemedicine nurses have already been brought on board and officials are in the process of hiring a third.” Article Chris Clay, Mississauga.com, 21 July 2012
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - July 22, 2012 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Nurses Patient Telemedicine Videoconferencing Source Type: news

Is Breast Still Best if You Have Drugs in Your Breastmilk?
As part of About.com's blog carnival on breastfeeding, I've written a series of new articles on breastfeeding, for Moms whose breastmilk could be affected by substances such as nicotine, alcohol, ...Read Full Post
Source: About.com Addictions - July 22, 2012 Category: Addiction Source Type: news

In Washington, HIV Testing Moves Beyond the Clinic
Now the city, trying to find the estimated 5,000 Washingtonians who are infected but do not know it, is offering tests in grocery stores and high schools, on corners where addicts gather and even in motor vehicle offices. And it is paying people to take them.
Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health - July 21, 2012 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Have You Ever Carried Out a Family Intervention?
Source: About.com Alcoholism - July 21, 2012 Category: Addiction Source Type: news

Kicking habits: a special report on NHS drug services
This special report on drug services, in association with Reckitt Benckiser, is a timely look at new and changing approaches to treating addiction and commissioning addiction treatments.
Source: HSJ - July 20, 2012 Category: UK Health Source Type: news

First-Year College Women Increasingly Taking Up Hookah Smoking
Nearly a quarter of college women try smoking tobacco with a hookah, or water pipe, for the first time during their freshman year, according to new research from The Miriam Hospital's Center for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine. The study, published online by Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, suggests a possible link to alcohol and marijuana use. Researchers found the more alcohol women consumed, the more likely they were to experiment with hookah smoking, while women who used marijuana engaged in hookah smoking more frequently than their peers...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - July 20, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Smoking / Quit Smoking Source Type: news

Do You Have an Alcohol or Drug Problem?
Source: About.com Alcoholism - July 20, 2012 Category: Addiction Source Type: news

Anthrax among heroin users in Europe: joint rapid risk assessment
Source: Department of Health Area: News Three cases of anthrax have been reported among heroin injectors in Germany, one in Denmark and one in France. The source is presumed to be contaminated heroin. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction joint rapid risk assessment concluded that further cases may occur among heroin injectors. Following this assessment, the Department of Health has highlighted that the Health Protection Agency's website contains information on responding to possible cases of anthrax in heroin users. The Department also advis...
Source: NeLM - Mental Health - July 20, 2012 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

Hot Sauce and Synchrony
Conducting my own experiments on compassion.read more
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - July 19, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: Abby Sher Tags: Addiction Happiness argyle socks college friends compassion dorm room earphones freddie mercury friend dennis great compassion hot sauce human instinct music new groove New York Times noodles ocd piles psychology experi Source Type: news

Some addiction treatment fails to tackle dependence
Heroin addicts that have been “parked” on substitute drugs should have their prescription reviewed immediately, a report from an expert panel into treating addiction has recommended.
Source: Nursing Times Breaking News - July 19, 2012 Category: Nursing Source Type: news

Rapid Weight Gain From Antipsychotics: Genetic Link Discovered
Scientists have discovered two genetic variants associated with the substantial, rapid weight gain occurring in nearly half the patients treated with antipsychotic medications, according to two studies involving the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). These results could eventually be used to identify which patients have the variations, enabling clinicians to choose strategies to prevent this serious side-effect and offer more personalized treatment...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - July 19, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Schizophrenia Source Type: news

Alcohol and Drugs in the News
Source: About.com Alcoholism - July 19, 2012 Category: Addiction Source Type: news

A Gentle Path through the Twelve Principles: Living the Values Behind the Steps
Renowned addiction expert Patrick Carnes, Ph.D. penned the classic A Gentle Path Through the Twelve Steps in 1994. While this book has helped hundreds of thousands of people, it is admittedly finite. In Carnes’s words, “many people who have been in recovery for a year or more need a book that condenses and presents the essentials of long-term recovery in a practical, deliberate way.” A Gentle Path Through the Twelve Principles is that book. Essentially a sequel, Twelve Principles picks up where Twelve Steps left off. As Carnes breaks it down, the first book is for addicts currently in recovery: it teaches them how to...
Source: Psych Central - July 18, 2012 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Dan Berkowitz Tags: Addictions Alcoholism Book Reviews Disorders General Self-Help Substance Abuse Treatment Brains Congruence Courage Expert Generativity Gentle Path Guts Hazelden Hearts Honesty Hundreds Of Thousands Italics Negative Source Type: news

Relationships: Doing the Math
Tom and Karen have had difficult lives. Tom has struggled with depression and employment, Karen with addiction problems. They have been together for 5 years and together they make a good pair. When Tom’s depression starts to take over, Karen steps in as support — making sure he gets out of bed in the mornings, making sure he is taking his meds, giving him some extra TLC.read more
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - July 18, 2012 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Robert Taibbi, L.C.S.W. Tags: Happiness Personality Relationships Self-Help 10 years addiction problems advertising firm assertive people breadwinner circumstances depression disability ditch emotional problems fragility good job hard time household Source Type: news

Techno Addiction vs. Our Human Needs
For many of us — particularly young people — to use the word "addiction" for our need to constantly be connected is not too far-fetched.read more
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - July 18, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: Mark Sherman, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Happiness Stress addictive behavior article points brains conversation couple of days denial front pages iPhone licensed clinical psychologist linkedin modern technology New York Times newsweek newsweek magazine Source Type: news

Will There Ever Be a Cure for Addiction?
Despite our national obsession with quick fixes, there’s no simple solution to our country’s drug problem. We have to recognize that addiction, like many other chronic diseases such diabetes and cancer, is here to stay.read more
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - July 18, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: David Sack, M.D. Tags: Addiction addiction treatment antidote behavioral component chronic ailments cocaine vaccine cravings dopamine drug and alcohol drug use headline news media hype mental illnesses motivator new ways pleasure center pleasure Source Type: news

Loudoun County wellness calendar, July 19-26
Inova blood donor services Thursday, noon-7 p.m. Inova Loudoun Hospital Center, 44045 Riverside Pkwy., Leesburg. 866-256-6372. Nar-Anon family group For family members and friends of people recovering from addictions. Thursdays at 7 p.m. Leesburg Presbyterian Church, 207 W. Market St., Leesburg. www.nar-anon.org. Read full article >>
Source: Wash Post Health - July 18, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Episcopal Church Source Type: news

Health Consequences of Illegal Drug Use
Source: About.com Alcoholism - July 18, 2012 Category: Addiction Source Type: news

Dreams and Recovery from Addiction
After more than thirty-five years of working with my own and other people’s dreams I am convinced that all dreams come in the service of health and wholeness. Even the worst recurring nightmares come to help the dreamer move forward more consciously in the direction of his/her health and wholeness.read more
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - July 17, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: Jeremy Taylor Tags: Addiction Self-Help Spirituality addictive behavior dreamer dreams dreams and addiction experiences health heart implication nightmares possibilities principle pulmonary systems terrible times waking life wholeness Source Type: news

iDivorced: How Marriage Saved My Family From Technology
What the wilderness, a fly rod, and a reconciliation gave our son.read more
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - July 17, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: Rachel Clark Tags: Addiction Media Parenting Relationships ADHD affect of divorce on children affect of Internet on children affects of Internet use alternate reality aversion caretakers children and Internet children of divorce depression dsm Source Type: news

Trauma Survivors and Addiction
As long as there have been wars, trauma has been recognized as the cause of debilitating symptoms that last long after the war is over. But active combat is hardly the only, or even the most common, form of trauma. Only recently have clinicians begun to realize the very wide range of traumas that have lingering effects.read more
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - July 17, 2012 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Karen Khaleghi, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety Behavioral Economics Memory Neuroscience amygdala battle fatigue brain stem car wreck catastrophic incident coping skills crime studies death of a loved one Emotional intensity incest limbic system natural disaster Source Type: news

Cave-Man Wisdom on Stress-Management
Humans have used the same basic stress relievers since we first walked the earth. This cave-man guide to anxiety shows how to put new stress-relief tools in your tool kit. read more
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - July 17, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: Loretta Graziano Breuning, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Anxiety Evolutionary Psychology Happiness Stress accelerator animal brains bad feelings brain structures cortex cortisol due regard gazelle hot stove human brains mammal neural pathways organism reptile brain Source Type: news

Build Your Own Stress-Management Tools
Humans have used the same basic stress relievers since we first walked the earth. This cave-man guide to anxiety shows how to put new stress-relief tools in your tool kit. read more
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - July 17, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: Loretta Graziano Breuning, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Anxiety Evolutionary Psychology Happiness Stress accelerator animal brains bad feelings brain structures cortex cortisol due regard gazelle hot stove human brains mammal neural pathways organism reptile brain Source Type: news

USA TODAY interview: Elton John's life a 'constant delight'
He survived addiction, befriended Rush Limbaugh and vows to wipe out AIDS. Why this new father is 'the luckiest guy in the world.'
Source: USATODAY.com Health - July 17, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

How Do You Cope When a Family Member Goes to Rehab?
Source: About.com Alcoholism - July 17, 2012 Category: Addiction Source Type: news

Genetic link to rapid weight gain from antipsychotics discovered
(Centre for Addiction and Mental Health) Scientists have discovered two genetic variants associated with the substantial, rapid weight gain occurring in nearly half the patients treated with antipsychotic medications, according to two studies involving the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - July 17, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Five Reasons We Can't Stop Distracting Ourselves
You’ve got an imminent deadline for that creative project. And yet, you can’t stop checking your email or Facebook, playing your favorite Zynga game, or seeing what’s happening in sports, entertainment, or the news online. Why are these temptations so irresistible even when you’re up against the clock? And how can you arrange to resist these time-wasting demons?read more
Source: Psychology Today Work Center - July 16, 2012 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Joanne Cantor, Ph.D Tags: Addiction Media Procrastination Work alerts allure attention brains checking email connection controlled attention convenience creative project creative work creativity demons distraction distractions diversions elect Source Type: news

Controlled Heroin Use
When I read about heroin addiction, it sounds like the epitome of self-destruction. Often upheld as the worst potential consequence of dabbling in soft drugs, the research seems to back up the stereotype. Compared to other drug users, heroin users have the worst rates of recovery, and lifestyles marked with crime, incarceration, and failure in all areas of life....Read Full Post
Source: About.com Addictions - July 15, 2012 Category: Addiction Source Type: news

Loving Broken Men: Rescuing Mr. Potential, Part 1
If we filled a fountain with a quarter for every woman who’s loved and tried to save a broken man, we could probably fill Niagara Falls. This destructive relationship pattern – what I call rescuing wounded souls – is one of the most common relationship problems that face women today.read more
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - July 14, 2012 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Seth Meyers, Psy.D. Tags: Gender Relationships Self-Help Sex addictions broken man broken men depression destructive relationship emotional commitment face women habit love and relationships love relationships men and women niagara falls relationshi Source Type: news

Exercise Can Help Recovery
Source: About.com Alcoholism - July 14, 2012 Category: Addiction Source Type: news

Do You Have an Alcohol or Drug Problem?
Source: About.com Alcoholism - July 13, 2012 Category: Addiction Source Type: news

Binge eating may be linked to addiction
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., July 12 (UPI) -- People with a history of binge eating may be at higher risk of addiction-like behaviors, including substance abuse, a U.S. researcher says.
Source: Health News - UPI.com - July 12, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Rethinking Everything We Thought About Addiction
Activation of the brain’s pleasure center is the primary starting point of addiction. But once a person takes drugs habitually, their use affects other brain regions.read more
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - July 12, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: David Sack, M.D. Tags: Addiction 12 steps addiction treatment addictive drugs addictive substances brain disease case in fact chronic diseases dopamine drug and alcohol drug and alcohol treatment effects of drugs medical communities neurotransmitter Source Type: news

Kenya: Syringes Blamed for Spread of Aids
[The Star]About 80 per cent of drug addicts at the Coast are HIV positive yet most of them do not engage in sex, according to Ministry of Health statistics. Celina Githinji, an officer with the of the Municipal Council of Mombasa's public health department, said the majority of heroin addicts do not contract the virus through sex.
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - July 12, 2012 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news

Oxycodone Formula Change Blamed for Rise in Heroin UseOxycodone Formula Change Blamed for Rise in Heroin Use
A change in a formula of the prescription opioid oxycodone to prevent abuse has had the unintended consequence of doubling heroin use among addicts. Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Psychiatry Headlines - July 12, 2012 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Psychiatry News Source Type: news

Alcohol and Drugs in the News
Source: About.com Alcoholism - July 12, 2012 Category: Addiction Source Type: news

Do I Have A Food Addiction?
Can we really be addicted to food? After all, we need food to survive. Our brains are wired to experience pleasure from eating which is what motivates us to consume enough energy—clearly a survival instinct.read more
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - July 11, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: Sherry Pagoto, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Diet Eating Disorders Neuroscience anxiety panic avena brains daily basis desired effect fats flour food addict food addiction food intake irritability laboratory rats pleasure centers preoccupation recreation Source Type: news

‘Abuse-Resistant’ Oxycontin May Be Driving Addicts to Heroin
Since its release, more users have turned to heroin and other opioids, study finds
Source: The Doctors Lounge - Health News - July 11, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: webmaster at doctorslounge.com Tags: Pharmacy, Dependence, News, Source Type: news

'Abuse-Resistant' Oxycontin May Be Driving Addicts to Heroin
Since its release, more users have turned to heroin and other opioids, study finds Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Pages: Heroin, Pain Relievers, Prescription Drug Abuse
Source: MedlinePlus Health News - July 11, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Are You Empowering or Enabling?
The desire to help others, especially those who mean the most to us, is one of the noblest of human instincts. Parents want to help their children succeed in school. Spouses want to help each other solve the problems that life throws at them. Friends want to help each other at work or in their personal relationships.read more
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - July 11, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: Karen Khaleghi, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Education Environment Relationships alcohol abuse alcoholism chores co-dependency defiance desire drug addict drug use enabler enabling human instincts impulse Irresponsibility lending a hand motivation pers Source Type: news

Can You Really Be Helplessly Addicted to Heavy Metal, Skittles, or Sunday Football?
Once, drugs and alcohol were addictive. Now the view is that you can get hooked on things like sex, sports, even rock music. It may sound like we're just making excuses for bad behavior, but there's a powerful urgency behind our beliefs about addiction.read more
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - July 11, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: Jeff Wise Tags: Addiction Self-Help addiction medicine Black Sabbath california san francisco cocaine addiction cranks dispensation doing the dishes drugs and alcohol heroin addiction heroin and cocaine internet addiction mental illnesses musi Source Type: news

Lessons in Narcotic Drug Abuse
It was announced yesterday that he Food and Drug Administration (FDA), at least for the moment overriding the advice of an expert panel, would not require doctors to have special training before they could prescribe long-acting narcotic painkillers that can lead to addiction.read more
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - July 11, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: Dr. Mark Borigini, M.D. Tags: Addiction Health Law and Crime Self-Help chronic pain deaths due to prescription drug abuse narcotic pain medication patient education physician education Source Type: news

Former Oxy Users Switching to Heroin
Source: About.com Alcoholism - July 11, 2012 Category: Addiction Source Type: news

What you may have missed on @nnlmmcr: May 29-June 30, 2012
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Source: Midcontinental Region News - July 10, 2012 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: liaison Tags: All Members Source Type: news

Smoking orangutan forced to kick habit
At Indonesia's Taru Jurug Zoo, a popular orangutan named Tori is being forced to butt out her filthy addiction to cigarettes.
Source: WDSU.com - Health - July 10, 2012 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Coping with the Pornography Addiction Explosion
In recent years I’ve had a lot of patients in my clinical practice asking for help with managing their internet pornography addiction…a lot! It seems like internet pornography addiction has become a very common problem for so many people, especially for men.read more
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - July 10, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: Thomas G. Plante, Ph.D., ABPP Tags: Addiction Self-Help Sex Stress addictions alcohol drugs boredom catholics clergy computer pornography consequences epidemic Episcopal free clicks girlfriend impulses internet addiction Internet pornography pornography a Source Type: news

Cannabis May Cause Schizophrenia-Like Brain Changes
Researchers looking at the effects of cannabis on the brain have made some interesting discoveries. The effect is similar to some of the symptoms of schizophrenia, say Dr. Matthew Jones and colleagues at Bristol University, UK. They predicted that the detrimental impact of cannabis on memory and cognition might be caused by brain networks being “disorchestrated.” Normally, specific parts of the brain are tuned into each another at certain frequencies, say the researchers. This rhythmic activity produces brain waves and allows information to be processed in order for us to react. The team used the analogy of an ...
Source: Psych Central - July 10, 2012 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Jane Collingwood Tags: Addictions Atypical Antipsychotics Disorders General Medications Schizophrenia Substance Abuse Treatment Brain Activity Brain Areas Brain Changes Brain Regions Brain Tune Brain Waves Brass Woodwind Bristol University Cannab Source Type: news