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fromPsychology Today
17 hours ago
Public health

How Words Perpetuate Stigma Surrounding Addiction

Stigma significantly reduces treatment uptake for substance use disorders, resulting in low rates of evidence-based care despite high prevalence.
fromPsychology Today
7 months ago
Mental health

The Revolving Door We Call Addiction Treatment

Substance use disorder significantly affects broader communities, not just individuals, and treatment systems are inadequate for its widespread nature.
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fromwww.aljazeera.com
3 weeks ago

Tuberculosis kills 1.23 million people last year, WHO says

Tuberculosis cases and deaths declined in 2024, but a severe global funding shortfall risks reversing gains and could cause millions more cases and deaths.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Teen opioid addictions often untreated as youth overdose deaths rapidly rise in US study

Fewer than one in three teenagers with opioid use disorder receive treatment, according to a study published in this month's Health Affairs journal that looked at the disorder in minors from 2022 to 2023. In 2023, 557 teens died of opioid overdose, nearly threefold as many as in 2018, while adult opioid deaths only went up by 65% during this time, according to the study. Drug overdoses are now among the leading causes of death for US teenagers.
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fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

You Can Beat Alcohol Use Disorder, Starting Now

Medications for alcohol use disorder are underutilized despite proven effectiveness, with structural, provider, and patient barriers causing low uptake.
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