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A Primer on Drug Addiction
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Considerable confusion exists regarding the nature of addiction. The most
common misunderstanding is that addiction refers to a state of physical
dependence on a drug whereby discontinuing drug intake produces a
withdrawal syndrome consisting of various somatic disturbances. Addiction
is better defined as a behavioral syndrome where drug procurement and use
seem to dominate the individual’s motivation and where continued drug
intake seems necessary to maintain optimal psychological functioning of
the individual.
URL:
http://www.addictionscience.net/ASNprimer.htm
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Addiction Search
Addiction Search is a comprehensive site dedicated to providing health
consumers and professionals with up-to-date, research-based information on
drugs and alcohol, treatment approaches, and policy issues. At this site
you will be able to find resources for dealing with substance abuse
problems in yourself or others. Selected resources offer a balanced
perspective on key issues in the addiction field.
URL:
http://www.addictionsearch.com/
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Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is the largest mental
health and addictions facility in Canada. Underlying all of the Centre's
efforts are two principal tasks: advancing our understanding of mental
health and addiction, and translating this knowledge into practical
resources and tools that can be used in our own programs and in the
broader community. This work is key to preventing problems, finding more
effective treatments for often debilitating conditions, and improving the
quality of life for people who are struggling with mental illness and
addictions.
URL:
http://www.camh.net/
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Cigarette Smoking
Cigarette Smoking is a website dedicated to providing practical
information to help individuals who are ready to quit smoking cigarettes.
Our aim is to offer relevant and useful information including valuable
tips about the best and most effective ways to stop smoking.
URL:
http://www.cigarette-smoking.net/
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Drug Abuse and Addiction Research
Dramatic scientific advances over the past 2 decades have revolutionized
our understanding of drug use and addiction. Foremost among these advances
is a clear understanding that drug use is a preventable behavior and that
drug addiction is a treatable disease of the brain. This Sixth Triennial
Report to Congress on drug use and drug use research clearly demonstrates
that we are continuing to make important progress in better understanding
the consequences of illicit drug use through research supported by the
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).
URL:
http://www.nida.nih.gov/STRC/STRCindex.html
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Drug Abuse Statistics from Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration
This report is the first release of information from SAMHSA's 1999
National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA). Since 1971, the NHSDA has
been the primary source of national information on the prevalence and
incidence of illicit drug, alcohol, and tobacco use in the civilian
population age 12 years and older. For the first time ever, this report
provides estimates of illicit drug, alcohol, and cigarette use by age
group that can be compared across States and the District of Columbia.
URL:
http://www.DrugAbuseStatistics.samhsa.gov/
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Drugstory
The National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign (for ONDCP) has developed
DrugStory.org to present the latest drug-related information to
entertainment writers and feature journalists. DrugStory.org offers its
audience of writers links to Web sites that offer detailed content on
specific drugs and drug related issues.
URL:
http://www.drugstory.org/
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Ecstasy
MDMA, called "Adam," "ecstasy," or "XTC" on the street, is a synthetic,
psychoactive (mind-altering) drug with amphetamine-like and hallucinogenic
properties. Its chemical structure (3-4 methylenedioxymethamphetamine) is
similar to two other synthetic drugs, MDA and methamphetamine, which are
known to cause brain damage.
URL:
http://www.nida.nih.gov/Infofax/ecstasy.html
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Effect of Addictive History on Conditioned Responses Anticipatory to the
Effects of Heroin
The object of this study was to examine the direction and intensity of the
anticipatory conditioned responses of mimetic character (conditioned
sensitivity) and of compensatory character (conditioned abstinence) to the
analgesic and subjective effects of heroin. There were four different
groups, 16 men in each: G1, non-addicts; G2, occasional users; G3,
non-detoxified addicts; G4, detoxified addicts. The responses, heart rate
(HR), electrodermal activity (EA), desire for heroin (HD), withdrawal
symptoms self-perception (WSS), and subjective symptoms mimetic to those
induced by heroin (SMS) were evaluated before and after the projection of
two films, one with neutral stimuli, the other with heroin-related
stimuli.
URL:
http://www.psychologyinspain.com/content/full/1197/5frame.htm
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Effects of Alcohol on Divided Attention and on Accuracy of Attentional
Shift
Two experiments are described in which a group of students (39 in
experiment 1, 32 in experiment 2) carried out: 1- a dual task, 2- a test
of auditory attentional shift, both under two conditions: A- after
drinking an alcoholic beverage until reaching a blood-alcohol level of
between 0.3 and 0.4 gr/l in experiment 1, and between 0.2 and 0.3 gr/l in
experiment 2; B- after drinking a similar beverage with negligible alcohol
content. Results showed that these low blood-alcohol levels –below the
legal limit for car drivers in Spain– impaired accuracy in attentional
shift and affected the capacity for dividing attention.
URL:
http://www.psychologyinspain.com/content/full/1999/7frame.htm
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Experimental Methods Used to Study Drug Addiction
Preclinical methods use laboratory animals to study drug addiction. A
number of experimental procedures are used at the ARU to study the
biological basis of drug addiction in laboratory animals. Several of these
procedures directly or indirectly measure the reinforcing effects of drug
administration. Drug reinforcement refers to the ability of some drugs to
motivate the individual to engage in behaviors leading to drug
administration.
URL:
http://www.addictionscience.net/ASNmethods.htm
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HabitSmart Home Page
This Web site has been constructed to provide an abundance of information
about addictive behavior: theories of habit endurance and habit change as
well as tips for effectively managing problematic habitual behavior.
URL:
http://www.habitsmart.com/
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Institute of Behavioral Research at TCU
For many years, the research staff of the IBR have given special attention
to evaluations of substance abuse and behavioral interventions provided by
community-based programs, including prevention and treatment, and to the
study of long-term addiction careers.
URL:
http://www.ibr.tcu.edu/
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Mind Over Matter: The Brains Response to Drugs
The "Mind Over Matter" series includes six colorful, over-sized, glossy
magazines, each of which is devoted to a specific drug or drug group;
including stimulants, hallucinogens, inhalants, marijuana, opiates, and
steroids. Each of the magazines describes the effects of specific drugs or
drug types on the anatomy and physiology of the brain and the body. These
educational materials further elaborate on the way in which these
drug-induced changes affect both behaviors and emotions.
URL:
http://www.nida.nih.gov/MOM/TG/momtg-index.html
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National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information
The world's largest resource for current information and materials
concerning alcohol and substance abuse prevention, intervention, and
treatment, the National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI)
is a service of the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, which is under
the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
URL:
http://www.health.org/
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National Institute on Drug Abuse
Recent scientific advances have revolutionized our understanding of drug
abuse and addiction. The majority of these advances, which have dramatic
implications for how to best prevent and treat addiction, have been
supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). NIDA supports
over 85 percent of the world's research on the health aspects of drug
abuse and addiction.
URL:
http://www.drugabuse.gov/
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Native Americans, Neurofeedback, and Substance Abuse Theory
This three year follow-up study presents the treatment outcomes of 19
Dine’ (Navajo) clients who completed a culturally sensitive, alpha/theta
neurofeedback training program. In an attempt to both replicate the
earlier positive studies of Peniston (1989) and to determine if
neurofeedback skills would significantly decrease both alcohol consumption
and other behavioral indicators of substance abuse, these participants
received an average of 40 culturally modified neurofeedback training
sessions.
URL:
http://www.snr-jnt.org/journalnt/jnt(2-3)3.html
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NIAAA Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database (ETOH)
The Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database, commonly referred to as
ETOH, is the most comprehensive online resource covering all aspects of
alcohol abuse and alcoholism. Produced by the National Institute on
Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), ETOH contains over 110,000 records
and is accessed by both researchers and clinicians worldwide. Included in
ETOH are abstracts and bibliographic references to journal articles,
books, dissertation abstracts, conference papers and proceedings, reports
and studies, and chapters in edited works.
URL:
http://etoh.niaaa.nih.gov/
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PCP (Phencyclidine)
PCP (phencyclidine) was developed in the 1950s as an intravenous
anesthetic. Use of PCP in humans was discontinued in 1965, because it was
found that patients often became agitated, delusional, and irrational
while recovering from its anesthetic effects. PCP is illegally
manufactured in laboratories and is sold on the street by such names as
"angel dust," "ozone," "wack," and "rocket fuel." "Killer joints"and
"crystal supergrass" are names that refer to PCP combined with marijuana.
The variety of street names for PCP reflects its bizarre and volatile
effects.
URL:
http://www.nida.nih.gov/Infofax/pcp.html
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Principles of Drug Addiction Treatment - A Research-Based Guide
Three decades of scientific research and clinical practice have yielded a
variety of effective approaches to drug addiction treatment. Extensive
data document that drug addiction treatment is as effective as are
treatments for most other similarly chronic medical conditions. In spite
of scientific evidence that establishes the effectiveness of drug abuse
treatment, many people believe that treatment is ineffective. In part,
this is because of unrealistic expectations. Many people equate addiction
with simply using drugs and therefore expect that addiction should be
cured quickly, and if it is not, treatment is a failure. In reality,
because addiction is a chronic disorder, the ultimate goal of long-term
abstinence often requires sustained and repeated treatment episodes.
URL:
http://www.drugabuse.gov/PODAT/PODATindex.html
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Substance Abuse and Addictions
Substance abuse and addiction are problems that vary in frequency,
duration, intensity, and social, psychological, and medical complications.
The treatment of substance abuse and addiction starts with an analysis of
an individual's level of functioning in all major life domains: medical,
psychological and social.
URL:
http://www.aacap.org/clinical/benesubs.htm
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The Biological Basis of Addiction
The pharmacological activation of brain reward systems is largely
responsible for producing a drug's potent addictive properties.
Personality, social, and genetic factors may also be important, but the
drug's effects on the central nervous system (CNS) remain the primary
determinants of drug addiction.
URL:
http://www.addictionscience.net/ASNbiological.htm
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Tobacco Cessation Guideline
New findings about the latest drugs and counseling techniques for treating
tobacco use and dependence. This guideline was written in response to new,
effective clinical treatments for tobacco dependence that have been
identified since 1994, and these treatments promise to enhance the rates
of successful tobacco cessation.
URL:
http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/tobacco/default.htm
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Treatment Improvement Exchange (TIE)
The Treatment Improvement Exchange (TIE) is a resource sponsored by the
Division of State and Community Assistance of the Center for Substance
Abuse Treatment to provide information exchange between CSAT staff and
State and local alcohol and substance abuse agencies.
URL:
http://www.treatment.org/
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Web of Addictions
The Web of Addictions is an award winning web site dedicated to providing
accurate information about alcohol and other drug addictions. It contains
Fact Sheets on various drugs, current information on the addictions field,
and a huge collection to addiction related links.
URL:
http://www.well.com/user/woa/
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What Makes the Internet Addictive: Potential Explanations for Pathological
Internet Use
Research has identified pathological Internet use (PIU) which has been
associated with significant social, psychological, and occupational
impairment. Prior research in the addictions field has explored the
addictive qualities sustaining drug and alcohol addictions, pathological
gambling, and even video game addiction. Results suggested that
information protocols were the least addictive functions and that
interactive aspects of the Internet such as chat rooms were highly
addictive, creating an atmosphere for Dependents to seek out
companionship, sexual excitement, and alter identities. Implications for
assessment and treatment are discussed.
URL:
http://www.Netaddiction.com/articles/habitforming.htm
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