Overcoming Pessimism About Treatment of Addiction

Overcoming pessimism about treatment of addiction.

ALTHOUGH 13 MILLION TO 16 MILLION PEOPLE IN THE UNITED States each year could benefit from treatment for addiction disorders, less than 25% of them receive it. Negative attitudes of physicians toward diagnosis and treatment of addiction create barriers to their early identification and treatment. In one survey of general practice physicians and nurses, a majority believed that no available medi...

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Talking Rationally About Rational Addiction

This paper reviews the rational addiction (RA) model of Becker and Murphy (1988) (BM) to demonstrate how its conclusions are based on assumptions about model parameters. The BM analysis emphasises the existence of an unstable steady state but the presumption of instability imposes strong restrictions on model parameters and is unlikely. Moreover, with two steady states (one stable, one unstable...

The door to recovery: overcoming drug and alcohol addiction.

Whether it’s because they are in denial, are ashamed, or simply are not ready for help, patients don’t always reveal their battles with addiction. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force reports insufficient evidence to recommend for or against alcohol screening in adolescents, and substance abuse screening in both adolescents and adults, but it does recommend screening for alcohol misuse in ad...