Column: One Little-Noticed Cause of Addiction – Unaddressed Psychological Trauma

Published May 6, 2013

Column: One little-noticed cause of addiction – unaddressed psychological trauma

Filed under: drug abuse treatment programs

Addiction often becomes one of the ways people deny or suppress their feelings and memories of past or ongoing present traumas. An estimated 30 to 90 percent of women in substance abuse treatment programs have experienced physical or sexual abuse.
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Manufacturers Under Pressure to Manage Painkillers

Filed under: drug abuse treatment programs

Abuse and misuse of prescription drug painkillers is soaring, responsible for more than 16,500 deaths in 2010, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). More than 250 million opioid prescriptions were filled in 2009, fueling a …
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