Seizure Drug May Be Useful in Cocaine Addiction
Seizure Drug May Be Useful in Cocaine Addiction
Patients with severe cocaine withdrawal symptoms may respond better to the addition of topiramate to cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) than to the addition of placebo, new research suggests. A randomized controlled trial of 170 adults who were …
My Name Is John and I Am a Sex Addict. (Or Maybe Not)
But these criteria failed to capture the compulsive quality of addiction, or the craving that drives relapse long after withdrawal symptoms have dissipated. So today's expert consensus — as laid out in the psychiatric community's Diagnostic and …