Professor Griffith Edwards

Published November 21, 2012

Professor Griffith Edwards

Filed under: drug addiction treatment statistics

Until the 1960s few psychiatrists were knowledgeable about the treatment of alcoholics and drug addicts, and fewer still were interested in the scientific study of addiction. Early in his … Edwards's publications on the dependence syndrome concept …
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Anesthesia Antidote May Help Treat Extreme Sleep Disorder

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A disorder that causes extreme sleepiness may be better treated with a drug commonly used to counter the effects of a Valium overdose, researchers said. Primary hypersomnia is linked to a substance that boosts the effects of gamma-aminobutyric acid, …
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Ease the pain

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Dr. Hal Vorse, medical director of A Chance to Change Foundation, an alcoholism and drug addiction treatment center, said you don't have to look far to find “those people.” “Go to a mall on a Saturday afternoon and … In 2009, the last year for which …
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