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Addiction Science: From Molecules to Managed Care
- Introduction
- What Is Addiction?
- Why Do People Abuse Drugs?
- Drug Use Changes the Brain
- Prevention/Development
- Genes, Environment, Comorbidity
- Treatment
- Relapse
- Medications alone are not enough; drug addiction, like other chronic diseases, requires long-term treatment.
- Relapse rates for drug addiction are similar to those of other well-characterized chronic illnesses.
- Drug addiction resembles other chronic diseases in more ways than relapse rates.
- People do recover from drug abuse and addiction.
- Extended abstinence is predictive of sustained recovery.
- It takes time, but the brain can recover.
- Drug abuse treatment works and brings about reductions not just in drug abuse, but also in criminal recidivism.
- Addiction treatment aims to help people achieve abstinence and become full participants in society.
- HIV/AIDS
- International Program & Conclusion
Relapse
In This Section
- Medications alone are not enough; drug addiction, like other chronic diseases, requires long-term treatment.
- Relapse rates for drug addiction are similar to those of other well-characterized chronic illnesses.
- Drug addiction resembles other chronic diseases in more ways than relapse rates.
- People do recover from drug abuse and addiction.
- Extended abstinence is predictive of sustained recovery.
- It takes time, but the brain can recover.
- Drug abuse treatment works and brings about reductions not just in drug abuse, but also in criminal recidivism.
- Addiction treatment aims to help people achieve abstinence and become full participants in society.
This page was last updated July 2008.
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