Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Nov 24, 2009, 2:43 am
Is an addiction taking over your life? With any problem it is very difficult to acknowledge there is a problem and breaking the habit seems impossible. It can take over your life and cause problems in...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Nov 10, 2009, 6:57 am
Tranquillity Before the second half of the 19th century, the dominant medical and popular notions of disease rested on a humoral theory, first put forward by Hippocrates and Aristotle, and then Galen...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Nov 6, 2009, 3:40 am
Over the past two decades there appears to have been a shift within health care from an expectation that patients with medical problems should entrust themselves passively to the care of physicians to...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Nov 6, 2009, 3:40 am
If the induction of appetites and cravings, which has been hitherto seen as psychological dependence, is not in fact any more psychological than the physical dependence that underlies withdrawal, is t...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Nov 6, 2009, 3:40 am
In 1954, Olds and Milner discovered that there appeared to be pleasure spots in the brain. Implanting electrodes in certain areas of the brain, through which a rat can give itself an electric current ...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Nov 6, 2009, 3:40 am
Separation Liability Liability for drug induced injuries did not become an issue of general concern until quite recently. However, a number of drug-induced problems from thalidomide in the 1960s to O...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Oct 28, 2009, 7:51 am
Dependence Before considering this in detail, we must exclude a type of physical dependence that occurs with a great number of drugs and ordinarily is of little consequence. Many drugs will cause reb...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Oct 26, 2009, 7:21 am
Here at The Causeway Retreat, we always like to hear what our clients think about their time in our private clinic. Here are a few recent testimonials from our clients: Dear all, Thank you very much...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Oct 21, 2009, 5:58 am
Dependence The issues of dependence and withdrawal have come up repeatedly through the previous articles we published. They are a primary concern of any taker of psycho-active medication. Some outlin...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Oct 19, 2009, 2:30 am
Effects of Drugs on Sex Table of Contents Potency Orgasm Libido Aphrodisiacs Yohimbine Trazodone Nefazodone and Cyproheptadine Glyceril Trinitrate Transcutaneous Absorption Intracaversonal Injection...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Oct 17, 2009, 3:00 am
The range of sexual difficulties can be devastating. Table of Contents Potency Ejaculation and Orgasm Libido Sexual Orientation, Objects and Practices The Female Sexual Response Sex Addiction Trea...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Oct 16, 2009, 4:21 am
... produce a hormone called angiotensin, which increases blood pressure. These compounds all, however, also bring about a release of acetylcholine ... radicals. Antioxidants, such as tocopherol o...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Oct 15, 2009, 4:27 am
Dementia Part of the problem in finding drugs which may be effective for dementia is that our ideas about what constitutes dementia have been undergoing radical change in recent years. It had been tr...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Oct 14, 2009, 9:10 am
Barbiturates Concerns about the over-prescription of benzodiazepines in recent years have led some prescribers to look at alternative hypnotic agents – either older compounds such as members of...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Oct 14, 2009, 6:27 am
There are a number of steps that can be taken in the management of insomnia before resort is made in hypnotics. These include: The elimination of all caffeine containing drinks Such as tea, coffee, ...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Oct 14, 2009, 5:45 am
Benzodiazepine Structure What is the place for hypnotics in this scheme of things? Basically the same place that alcohol has occupied for centuries. Most of us every so often, if we are anxious, work...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Oct 13, 2009, 7:02 am
Insomnia itself can be difficult to manage and live with it. An initial complaint of insomnia may refer to a number of different things, such as; An inability to get to sleep. An inability to stay a...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Oct 12, 2009, 10:18 am
Sleep Disorders There are a number of sleep disorders, of which by far the commonest relate in some way to the complaint of insomnia, which will be the principal focus of this and the following blogs...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Oct 12, 2009, 8:56 am
Beta-blockers In recent years, with concern over benzodiazepine use, there has been interest in the use of beta-blockers in the treatment of anxiety, principally propranolol (Inderal) and atenolol (T...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Oct 12, 2009, 5:27 am
5-HT Receptors and Drugs The 1990s look like being the decade of the neurotransmitter 5-HT – otherwise called serotonin. This was first isolated in the intestine in 1933 and called enteramine. ...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Oct 7, 2009, 4:46 am
We like to hear what our clients say about us. Here is another testimonial we received 2 weeks ago. Thank you so much for the care and attention I have received over the past 2 weeks at Osea Island. ...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Oct 6, 2009, 6:02 am
To attempt to write an impartial account of the benzodiazepines is all but impossible (1,2). When they were first introduced these drugs (see the table below) were seen as being of major benefit, and ...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Oct 5, 2009, 4:48 am
In addition to the types of anxiety mentioned earlier, there are a number of different situations in which anxiety arises according to which it is categorised and treatment given. There are many diffe...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Oct 1, 2009, 6:11 am
Stress Management Five groups of drugs are used to manage anxiety The neuroleptics, particularly chlorpromazine, haloperidol, flupenthixol and thioridazine, which are dealt with in Management of Psy...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Oct 1, 2009, 5:12 am
Lithium Pellets There are some suggestions from as early as the 2nd century AD that spring waters that were alkaline (which would be expected with a high concentration of lithium salts) were known to...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Sep 29, 2009, 10:34 am
Mania is for practical purposes the mirror image of depression. Approximately 50% of people affected present with an elated, euphoric mood. They may be grandiose in their attitudes and beliefs uninhib...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Sep 28, 2009, 5:57 am
As with almost any other pills, antidepressants has their own side effects. For the first 2 weeks of taking an antidepressant, there may be little other than side effects. Generally, these will be mi...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Sep 24, 2009, 9:50 am
There are seven major physical treatments for depression at present. Tricyclic Antidepressants (Table 1). These have until recently been by far the most widely used. The Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors ...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Sep 22, 2009, 7:43 am
Coping with stress can be hard at times. The term ‘affective disorder‘ is sometimes taken to encompass both the mood and anxiety disorders. In this blog, it will be restricted to the form...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Sep 22, 2009, 6:34 am
Schizophrenia can be dangerous to yourself and others around you if treated incorrectly. In any consideration of the dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia, one of the arguments invariably put forward ...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Sep 21, 2009, 10:44 am
Anticholinergics The anticholinergics are a group of drugs, examples of which are given in the table below, which antagonise the action of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine (Ach) at one of its recep...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Sep 21, 2009, 8:13 am
As with most of the drugs, Neuroleptics may have some serious side effects. Neuroleptics all bind to dopamine receptors. Almost all bind to at least one other receptor as well but not all of them bin...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Sep 17, 2009, 4:45 am
The most commonly used neuroleptics Approved name UK Trade Name US Trade Name chlorpromazine Largactil Thorazine thioridazine Melleril Mellaril flupenthixol Fluanol/Depixol n/a clopenthixol Clopi...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Sep 15, 2009, 9:42 am
Traditionally, three psychoses or major categories of psychiatric illness have been described. These are schizophrenia, manic-depressive psychosis and a third group, variously termed the paranoid, rea...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Sep 14, 2009, 8:25 am
Watching your daily drinking limits carefully will be beneficial to you in longer term. All estimates of the total number of problem drinkers tend, by their nature, to be conservative. However, some ...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Sep 14, 2009, 8:02 am
There are disadvantages to home detoxification in addition to it's advantages. The disadvantages of home detoxification need to be actively considered in each case. The home environment may conta...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Sep 14, 2009, 7:47 am
Choosing home detoxification may be crucial to your psychological wellbeing. There are many advantages of home detoxification for both the client and the service provider. There are financial benefit...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Sep 10, 2009, 10:45 am
Home Detox has many advantages compared to clinical detox on alcohol addiction. The term ‘detoxification‘ can be applied in several ways. It can be used to imply a ‘process’ w...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Sep 7, 2009, 9:58 am
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. Sir Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, Essays, ‘Of Death’. Drug Abuse in Pregnancy It ...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Sep 3, 2009, 9:41 am
Illness is in part what the world as done to a victim but in a larger part is what the victim has done with his world, and with himself. Karl Menninger, quoted in ‘Illness as Metaphor’ by...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Sep 2, 2009, 8:08 am
It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so. William Whitelaw, “Sayings of the Year”, The Observer, 1975 There is no...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Aug 28, 2009, 9:46 am
Poppers make you feel really heady when you’re dancing but you have to keep sniffing it every few minutes because it doesn’t last long. Sometimes it makes you feel a bit dizzy. Comment fr...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Aug 25, 2009, 7:56 am
And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the Garden of Eden to dress it and to kept it. The Bible, Genesis 2: v.15. Deliberate self-intoxication with plant material is an ancient human practi...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Aug 24, 2009, 11:01 am
If we heard it said of Orientals that they habitually drank a liquor which went to their heads, deprived them of reason and made them vomit, we should say: ‘How very barbarous!’ Jean d...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Aug 24, 2009, 5:16 am
A custom loathsome to the Eye, hateful to the Nose, harmful to the Braine, dangerous to the Lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit ...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Aug 21, 2009, 10:41 am
While the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but do not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in. William Cowper (1731-1800), &...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Aug 20, 2009, 10:49 am
A hundred doses of happiness are not enough: send to the drug store for another bottle – and, when that is finished, for another… Aldous Huxley (1894-1964), ‘Brave New World Revisit...
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Brendan Quinn posted an article on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog - Aug 6, 2009, 6:43 am
I never thought I would ever become an addict; I thought I was too level-headed and had a strong mind, one that would never lose control. But I was wrong, and if fate hadn’t intervened, I would have...
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