What is addiction?
We all talk about how we’re “addicted” to things. “Oh, I am so addicted to chocolate!” or “Have you seen how I look in those jeans? I am just ADDICTED to denim!” At this level, what we’re really saying is that we have a strong preference for certain things. However, when it comes to more serious things like shoplifting, using personal loans or credit cards in they way they weren’t intended to be used, sub stance abuse and other life-disrupting behaviors, addiction can be very real. It is no laughing matter.
But now there may be a pill for that, called naltrexone.
Caleb Hellerman reports for CNN that this new anti-addiction medication “may turn the world of rehab on its head.”
A breakthrough in treatment
Dr. Mark Willenbring of the National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse says mental health care and the substance abuse tied to it has reached a point where treatment is not necessarily tied to being institutionalized. Now more can be done in homes and doctors’ offices. ... click here to read the rest of the article titled "No Personal Loan Addiction With Naltrexone?"
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ReplyDeleteNaltrexone is an opioid receptor antagonist used primarily in the management of alcohol dependence and opioid dependence.
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