The following series of articles provides the reader with brief descriptions of some of the diverse ways that people with substance-related problems can be helped. It is organized into two subsections. Treatment consists of summaries of the common ways...

The development of treatment programs for the age-old problem of drug and alcohol abuse has been a fairly recent phenomenon. Most formal treatment programs were founded in the latter half of the twentieth century; the mid-1960s were a period of...

Perhaps there is no other illness to which the saying "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" is more applicable than it is to substance abuse and dependence. The reason for this is that once a person becomes dependent on, or...

Treatment may refer to: In health: Therapy, the act of remediation of a health problem, which could include: chemotherapy counseling pharmacotherapy psychotherapy In the arts: Film treatment, a prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a...

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Having been thoroughly indoctrinated by those girl-power dating books—The Rules, He’s Just Not That Into You, and, most recently, The List—I am fairly cutthroat about dating lulls. You know: you go out with someone a couple of times and then … nothing. Sometimes it’s eternal—you...

The U.S. medical establishment appears to have turned a blind eye to the abuse of military medicine at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, doctors from around the world said in a letter published Friday in a prestigious British medical journal.Health care workers in the...

Lower prices for HIV drugs have significantly improved access to treatment for people in poor countries, but figures are still far off target for the United Nations' long-term goal of universal coverage by 2010, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.By the end of 2006 some...