![]() Take a Mental Health Test. When thinking about your addiction issues including alcohol, drug use include illegal drug use and the use of prescription drug use other than prescribed or other addiction. Please note, all fields are required. Have you ever felt that you ought to cut down on your drinking or drug use? |
![]() Help with Drug Addiction. We work in collaboration with the Community Addiction Team to provide substitute prescribing of Methadone or suboxone for help with opiate addiction. We have an Addictions counsellor who consults at the surgery weekly, and patients see both the GP and counsellor, at alternate appointments. |
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![]() If you or someone you know has a drink, drug or gambling problem, our specialist teams may be able to help. West Dunbartonshire Addiction Services provide health and social care services for individuals with problems linked to drug and/or alcohol misuse physical, medical and social needs of individuals as considered as part of the assessment. Some of the services offered by Addiction Services include -.: |
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![]() Addiction is ultimately a condition that the individual must learn to manage; no one can take the fight on for the addict. Set boundaries and stand by them. Encourage the individual to seek help; this may include finding treatment resources for them. Find a therapist who specializes in addiction counseling and get help. Loved ones of addicts need support too. Set an example for healthy living by giving up recreational drug and alcohol use. Be supportive, but do not cover for problems created by substance abuse. |
![]() But even for those whove successfully quit, theres always a risk of the addiction returning, which is called relapse. The biological basis of addiction helps to explain why people need much more than good intentions or willpower to break their addictions. |
![]() Your doctor can prescribe certain medicines to help relieve your withdrawal symptoms. They also will help control your cravings. These medicines include methadone often used to treat heroin addiction, buprenorphine, and naltrexone. Methadone and buprenorphine help reduce withdrawal symptoms by targeting the same centers in the brain that opioids target. |
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![]() Ukraine: How you can help. Addiction Research Group. Leading high quality research evidence to support people affected by addiction. Addiction Research at UEA produces high quality multidisciplinary research evidence to impact upon people who are affected by addiction, including service users, carers, health professionals and policy makers. |
![]() Publishing Addiction Science is a comprehensive guide for addiction scientists especially novice researchers facing the complex process of publishing in scholarly journals. The book is co-sponsored by the International Society of Addiction Journal Editors ISAJE, The Society for the Study of Addiction SSA and Addiction. |