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Antisocial Behavior and Drug Addiction

Gateway Foundation

Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) or antisocial behavior can include poor impulse control, which can cause people to engage in risky behaviors, such as sharing needles with others, resulting in HIV or hepatitis. They may deny their addiction, which can increase the intensity and length of their SUD. Childhood experiences.

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Continuing Care After Addiction Treatment in Chicago

Gateway Foundation

Addiction recovery lasts long after the initial treatment, which means your care must continue as well. Addiction treatment occurs in two main stages. In the second stage, you begin continuing care — the range of outpatient addiction treatments that support your ongoing recovery. What Is Continuing Care?

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The Victoria Climbié Inquiry chair reflects on social work, 21 years on

Community Care

Our interview with Lord Herbert Laming is part of a new series of profiles of key figures who have shaped social work over the past five decades, to celebrate Community Care’s 50th anniversary. Which influential figures in social work would you like to see Community Care interview?

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How to Talk With Patients About Substance Use Disorder

Gateway Foundation

Psychologists have found that using medically accurate language can help dismantle stereotypes outside the clinical space while providing more effective, compassionate support for people with addiction. Using motivational interviewing strategies and people-first language can help guide the conversation.

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Professor David Nutt: A New Approach To Treating Depression

MQ Mental Health

David specialises in the research of drugs that affect the brain and conditions such as addiction, anxiety, and sleep. But amidst a kaleidoscope of varying scientific interests, it’s psychiatry and pharmacology which ultimately kept his boyhood fascination engaged. “I David explains in the episode why addiction makes sense.

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Molly vs. Ecstasy: What’s the Difference?

Gateway Foundation

MDMA Addiction and Withdrawal. The research on the risk of addiction to MDMA is varied. Still, there are plenty of signs that it has the potential to be just as addictive as other substances, mainly since it affects the same neurotransmitter systems as other drugs — norepinephrine, dopamine and serotonin. MDMA Treatment Options.

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Crime prevention starts with protecting children

Stop Abuse Campaign

Drug dealing typically starts as a way for users like Larry to make enough money to feed their addiction. People in poverty have fewer opportunities around assets such as education, interview practice, resume help, or the proper clothing for an interview. He lived in section 8 housing, which is for low-income people.