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Gender-Responsive Treatment in North County
The Role of Gender-Responsive Treatment "Gender-responsive" refers to a treatment plan which takes both an individual's biological sex and their socially constructed gender roles into account, with full recognition of a given client's self-asserted gender identity. It...
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Why Women Develop Substance Use Disorder
Why Do Women Become Addicted? A host of recent research has demonstrated that men and women experience the challenges of substance use disorder in significantly different ways. These progressions of substance use are not without their overlap, but any needs-based...
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Five Common Signs of Opioid Abuse
Recognizing the Signs of Chronic Opioid Use With a conspicuous hole in general public knowledge relating to the symptoms of opioid use, not knowing what to look for can have serious consequences. Substance use disorder is difficult for many people to understand,...
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What is Subutex?
What is Subutex? Subutex is one of the brands under which buprenorphine, a partial opioid agonist, is prescribed to individuals overcoming chronic heroin use. It is also used to overcome addiction to other opioids, including those which are prescribed for their...
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Top 5 Ways the Body Benefits from a More Mindful Lifestyle
Top 5 Ways the Body Benefits from a More Mindful Lifestyle Mindfulness is gaining a lot of traction in modern psychology, particularly in the treatment of substance abuse disorder and behavioral health. Its understanding as a popular concept is based on an...
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MAT for Providers
Medication-Assisted Therapy (MAT) for Substance Abuse Recovery Providers The use of medication in the substance abuse disorder recovery process has always been controversial. While well-established methadone maintenance programs correctly assert the benefits?which...
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What is Suboxone?
What is Suboxone? As our country's prescription opioid and heroin abuse epidemic continues to worsen, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration is placing greater emphasis on those treatments which have been demonstrated to be the most effective in...
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How MAT Works
How MAT Works Medication-Assisted Treatment for Substance Use Dependency Medication-assisted treatment (MAT) incorporates the use of a range of medications to help those trapped in a cycle of substance abuse break free, improving their chances of experiencing a...
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Achieving Lasting, Self-Determined Recovery
The Secrets to a Lasting Recovery West Coast Recovery Centers' policy of self-determined recovery has had a lasting and profound effect upon the lives of its clients. It reflects several innovative changes in the mindset of traditional substance use treatment, changes...
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What is Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention (MBRP)?
What is Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention? Substance use disorder is a pervasive and insidious disease. Through psychological and chemical means, it informs the very same mental and physiological factors which perpetuate its existence. This is where cravings come...
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