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- Title
Biology and Psychology in the Treatment of Addiction.
- Authors
Westreich, Laurence M.
- Abstract
This issue of Primary Psychiatry focuses on the ever-increasing biologic treatments for addiction, and how clinicians can integrate those modalities into broader psychosocial treatments. Although addiction is most certainly a brain disease, it is not only a brain disease. As anyone who treats addicted or dually diagnosed patients knows, the presenting problem's complexity usually necessitates some combination of biologic and psychological remedies. The wide-ranging and biologically distinct modalities in this issue will be presented as useful parts of the more complete treatment package. Readers will find new clinical tools, an understanding of where science is heading, and renewed hope for patients in their battles against addiction and mental illness.
- Publication
Primary Psychiatry, 2009, Vol 16, Issue 8, p31
- ISSN
1082-6319
- Publication type
Academic Journal