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Outpatient Care for Binge Eating: what to Expect

If you struggle with binge eating and want to stop, outpatient care is a good option. Your health insurance should cover outpatient treatment for e...

Link Between Binge Eating and Depression

If you binge eat, you might feel depressed about your food habits. The same genes involved in depression may play a role in eating and anxiety diso...

Conversion Disorder

Conversion disorder is a condition in which you have physical symptoms of a health problem but no injury or illness to explain them. Your doctor wi...

Methadone

Methadone is part of a category of drugs called opioids. If you need methadone for pain, your doctor will write a prescription for it. Experts say ...

What is Substance Abuse?

Heavy drinking also can cause liver and other health problems or lead to a more serious alcohol disorder. The most commonly abused OTC drugs are co...

Opioid and Opiate Withdrawal

Opioid withdrawal is what happens when you stop taking opioid drugs after your body has come to rely on them to feel OK. If a doctor or paramedic g...

Life After Rehab

You’ve seen it in the tabloids: The celebrity with a history of drug or alcohol problems checks back into a treatment center -- or loses their life...

Counseling and Substance Use Disorders

The right treatment plan will be tailored to your addiction and individual needs. While any counseling therapy for drug abuse treatment is better t...

Alcohol Detox and Rehab Programs: what to Know

You’re more likely to stick with a detox program when you have lots of help. When you think about detox programs, it helps to look a step ahead to ...

Understanding Posttraumatic Stress Disorder -- The Basics

About one in three people with PTSD develop a long-lasting form of the disorder. People with PTSD often have trouble with depression, substance abu...

Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders

Patients who experience SSD may cling to the belief that their symptoms have an underlying physical cause despite a lack of evidence for a physical...

Paranoid Personality Disorder

Paranoid personality disorder (PPD) is one of a group of conditions called 'Cluster A' personality disorders which involve odd or eccentric ways of...