A History of Addiction Treatment for Black Men and Women
A history of addiction treatment for black men and women
Haslyn E.R. Hunte, in a first-of-its-kind study, finds perceived racial discrimination and a sense of being treated unfairly can lead to the use of drugs/alcohol to cope, and need to be addressed in treatment. Recent studies also indicate that black …
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LETTER: Truth about drugs the right approach
More than three decades of research supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) prove that addiction is a complex brain disease. Most addiction research agrees that the cause of addiction occurs in the midbrain and involves the dysfunction …
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What Is Addiction?
… plague of both desperate poverty and tortured privilege. The abuse of prescription drugs is an even more widespread problem. But what causes the addiction that lets drug abuse flourish? Is addiction a disorder, a matter of human frailty or …
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