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Received June 23 2012 Revised August 1 2012 Accepted August 8 2012 12 Current Drug Abuse Reviews 2013 Vol 6 No 1 Thomas et al 24Jones BT Corbin W Fromme K A review of expectancy. Advantage has earned a reputation for honesty and integrity in providing the personal services that you need to stay in your home and remain independent. By providing only the assistance you need, we are the affordable alternative to nursing home institutional services. We are known for our high standards of Senior Living. Priding ourselves with the excellent care we provide for all of our seniors. Our Residential Care homes have all the comforts of home and more. All of our locations offer 24 hour care and supervision by our highly trained staff and health care professionals. We are trained and certified in Dementia and Alzheimer’s care, Hospice care also provided. Our care center for seniors is unique in the area. Our residents have the opportunity to enjoy their own private room with all the necessary accommodations  to receive the individual long term care they deserve. http://www.ayahuascaassociation.org/ | The Ayahuasca Foundation is dedicated to the preservation and continuation of the ancient science of plant spirit medicine. It is our mission to guard the sacred tree of spiritual knowledge that has grown in the Amazon Rainforest for millenia, and replant the seeds of spiritual awareness so that new trees of forgotten wisdom will again grow throughout the world. Bob Sammons, M.D., Ph.D.. Mesa Behavioral Medicine Clinic. TMS Solutions. Conflict of interest. None.      Dr. Sammons received a bachelors and master’s degree from Auburn University, a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and a medical degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  He did a residency in psychiatry at the University of Virginia as well as a forensic fellowship.  While serving in the United States Air Force as a squad commander and captain, he was selected as one of 5 psychologist to establish the opiate treatment phase of the drug treatment program for the Department of Air Force in 1972.  For this he receive the  Meritorious Service Medal.  He has practiced adult psychiatry in Grand Junction for 28 years.  He is 1 of 2 physicians in town that have received specialist training and a special DEA number that allows him to prescribe Suboxone treatment for opiate dependency.. Steve Hanson. . . Basic Questions. Why do people do drugs?. Why can’t/ won’t some people stop?. Realities. People like Drugs.. We all like things faster and easier.. How Drugs Work. Interact with neurochemistry. Defined as continued involvement with a substance or activity despite its ongoing negative consequences.. When the individual eventually needs to consume the addictive substance or enact the behavior to feel normal.. What is Drug?. . A DRUG is a substance which may have medicinal, . intoxica. -ting, performance enhancing or other effects when taken or put into human body or the body of another animal and is not considered a food or exclusively a food.. Richard A. Rawson, Ph.D, Professor. Semel. Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. David Geffen School of Medicine. University of California at Los Angeles. www.uclaisap.org. rrawson@mednet.ucla.edu. 1. Presented by: Elizabeth Siccon. e. Therapy?. 2. What is AAT. . Animal. -assisted therapy (AAT) is formally defined by the Delta Society as “a goal- directed intervention in which an animal that meets specific criteria is an integral part of the treatment process” . What is Drug?. . A DRUG is a substance which may have medicinal, . intoxica. -ting, performance enhancing or other effects when taken or put into human body or the body of another animal and is not considered a food or exclusively a food.. medication not prescribed for you in a way other than prescribed for example taking too much or to get highWhen abused prescription drugs can be as dangerous as 147street148 drugs with similar e31ects Nicole T. Labor, DO. Nicole T. Labor, DO, BCFP, BCABAM. Medical Director, . OneEighty. , Wooster, OH. Fellowship Director of Addiction Medicine, . SummaHealth. , Akron, OH. Medical Director . Esper. Treatment Center, Erie, PA. HUSAM ALTHARI, MD. INOVA CATS . Addiction is a Complex Disease (CD is a CD). …with biological, sociological and psychological components. How does the brain become addicted?. Drug use of any type activates the same circuits as do behaviors linked to survival and pleasure.