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Drs. Norko and Fitch examine questions raised by DSM-5 in the forensic context of criminal defendant diversion to treatment, where eligibility has commonly relied on the view that addiction to alcohol or drugs is distinct from alcohol or drug use, misuse, and abuse. The creation in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), of the new unidimensional spectr...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is better understand perceptions of front-line social service workers who are not addiction specialists, but have to address addiction-related issues during their standard services. METHOD Six social service organizations implemented a validated alcohol assessment and brief education intervention. After a 3-month trial implementation period, a convenience sampl...

This paper explores women's choice of controlled drinking or abstinence goals in harm reduction treatment programs for alcohol use problems. Situated within debates about controlled or abstinence goals for alcohol use, this research project provides a specific focus on women's treatment needs. We explore evidence which reveals that women in treatment for alcohol problems often hold deeply inter...

Surely, we all know someone close to us who uses drugs. Consider, for example, tobacco or alcohol, even marijuana. They may at some point have tried stop using and, after somewhat longer shorter periods of abstinence, started again.
 Not every drug user develops an addiction: addicts’ lives revolve around compulsive drug-seeking and use; they lose control over their own decision-making end...

[Context & motivation] Digital Addiction, e.g. to social networks sites and games, is becoming a public interest issue which has a variety of socio-economic effects. Recent studies have shown correlation between Digital Addiction and certain negative consequences such as depression, reduced creativity and productivity, lack of sleep and disconnection from reality. Other research showed that Dig...

Alcohol dependence is associated with a wide range of physical, mental, and social harms. The related economic and social costs can be reduced by an adequate addiction therapy. This therapy should not only focus on the psychotherapy of addiction but should also include the possibility to treat psychiatric co-morbidity and take into account gender-specific aspects of addiction. The first steps o...

BACKGROUND Tianeptine, a new generation antidepressant, possesses a unique mechanism of antidepressive action and has a specific pharmacokinetic profile. The aim of this study was to determine the efficacy, tolerability and safety of tianeptine in a "fragile" population of depressive patients: (1) a group of elderly patients and (2) a group with comorbid alcohol addiction. SUBJECTS AND METHOD...

Most primary care physicians do not feel competent to treat alcohol- and drug-related disorders. Physicians generally do not like to work with patients with these disorders and do not find treating them rewarding. Despite large numbers of such patients, the diagnosis and treatment of alcohol- and drug-related disorders are generally considered peripheral to or outside medical matters and ultima...