When cocaine abusers seek treatment for their addiction, medications can help them to stop using cocaine. These medications can also reduce the chances of relapse, or an addict's return to using cocaine. A person who suddenly stops using cocaine...

This section provides the reader with brief descriptions of some of the diverse ways that people with substance-related problems can be helped. Treatment Types presents descriptions of distinct interventions that are applicable to dependence on each of...

Drug rehabilitation (often drug rehab or just rehab) is an umbrella term for the processes of medical and/or psychotherapeutic treatment, for dependency on psychoactive substances such as alcohol, prescription drugs, and so-called street drugs such as...

The House approved a bill, HR 2829, on the Office of National Drug Control Policy that emphasizes prison sentences for drug traffickers while creating a new $10 million grant program for rehabilitation of chronic users of hard drugs. "The newly added definition of...

Connecticut can address most of its prison crowding problem and cut costs at the same time through new judicial policies that would reduce sentences and increase substance abuse treatment. An advisory report claimed that 80 percent of the state's inmates have substance abuse...

An Israeli military reserve major was indicted on espionage charges Friday for offering secret information to Iran and the militant Palestinian group Hamas, according to court documents.David Shamir, a psychiatrist and officer in a reserve unit of the army's medical corps, sent e-mails and faxes...

Calvert DeForest, the white-haired, bespectacled nebbish who gained cult status as the oddball Larry "Bud" Melman on David Letterman's late night television shows, has died after a long illness.The Brooklyn-born DeForest, who was 85, died Monday at a hospital on Long Island, Letterman's "Late Show"...