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ADHD Drugs May Lower Odds of Cocaine Abuse
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Monday December 3 6:09 PM ET ADHD Drugs May Lower Odds of Cocaine Abuse By Amy Norton NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Growing evidence suggests that children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) who use stimulants like Ritalin are not at risk for drug addiction later in life, as some experts have worried. The latest comes from a study in rats that suggests stimulant treatment in childhood may blunt the pleasurable effects of cocaine in adulthood. Researchers say the findings support ...
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Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. 1987 Apr;27(4):267-70. Bromocriptine therapy in cocaine withdrawal. Twenty-four cocaine addicts who experienced withdrawal symptoms were studied for six weeks in a double-blind design. Half of the group received daily treatment with bromocriptine and the other half with placebo. Significant relief with bromocriptine was seen almost immediately and continued throughout the detoxification period. The authors speculate that the results are consistent with the " ...
Ritalin is a gateway to cocaine abuse
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This study found that ritalin use leads to cocaine abuse. Stimulant treatment in high school also did not influence drug use in adulthood except for greater use of cocaine. They found, unfortunately, that treatment with stimulant medication in high school is significantly associated with the risk of ever trying cocaine. That this is a valid conclusion is supported by their finding that treatment with stimulant medication in childhood is associated with cocaine use in adulthood, although after ad ...
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NIDA - Publications - Drug Counseling for Cocaine Addiction Following completion of Phase I group (weeks 1-12), clients participate in Phase II group during weeks 13 through 24. Phase II of the group treatment program is a semi-structured, problem-solving session that meets for 12 consecutive weekly sessions of 90 minutes duration. By the time they enter Phase II, many clients have established some stability in their abstinence from cocaine and other substances. They have to continue actively working at staying sober and making positive changes in themselves and their lifestyle. Problem-oriented discussions provide group ...
In the problem-solving group, the group counselor’s main role is to facilitate the identification of problems in recovery and the discussion of strategies to address these problems. In the course of the group sessions, the group counselor can educate; stimulate members to talk with each other rather than with the group counselor; help members clarify and explore problems, concerns, and coping strategies; and help members support and confront one another. The group counselor also protects the group process by ensuring that a balance exists among the three components of group treatment: ...
Problem - solving Courts: A Search for Better Outcomes - April 2007 The voices Kevin heard in his head drove him to alcohol, then cocaine. He lost his job, house and marriage. The cycle of drugs-crime-jail became his routine. The problem-solving approach applied by Mental Health Court ended this cycle by addressing his core issue, mental illness. By requiring him to cooperate with his psychiatrist and take his prescribed medication, the court was able to break the cycle.
During the last decade there has been a quiet but dramatic transformation in how our court does its work. In the past, the principal role of the court was to try cases and send people to jail or place them on probation, only worrying about them if they came back on a new case. Often, offenders who committed minor crimes were jailed for short periods of time, and when they get out, they return to the same behavior that got them jailed in the first place. Then they got arrested again, some of them time after time.
Poverty Impairs Problem - Solving Abilities in Children Each child played with the Goodman Lock Box, a large red box with 10 locked compartments, each containing a toy of interest to a toddler. It's designed to help assess problem-solving skills in preschoolers. The children were invited to open the compartments and play with the toys, as examiners watched and rated them on three behavioral components: aimless actions, competence, and mental organization.
Both groups of children achieved similar scores in all three categories. However, their mental organization scores were significantly lower than those of a standardized sample of preschoolers not living in poverty. Mental organization is needed for higher learning later in life. In addition, Hurt says, the children under study had IQs of only 79-80, significantly lower than the average score of 100.
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Elements of My Father I am consistently drawn to the books of male mid-life crisis. Oh, there is such a genre, though I myself didn’t realize that that’s what it was at first. But those straight talking, usually spare, writers who show you their turmoil again and again, though they will never say that trouble outloud - they get me every time. Hemingway, Carver, McGuane, Harrison, O’Brien. I am fascinated with forty-year-old men with issues. Perhaps it is simply the style. Without the slightest whining, without asking for it at all, the characters in these books ...
My dad was born in Sarasota, Florida and spent his childhood in West Palm Beach - a town that is, in whole, on the wrong side of the tracks, separated by four straight iron bars from the southern columned mansions of Palm Beach Drive. My dad is the middle child. His brother is two years older than him, and his father twenty. To this day my dad has never eaten a mango because his neighbor in West Palm year after year allowed the trees of his yard to drop their fruit to the lawn, where they became an oozing brown mass, stinking ...