Cravings affect addiction recovery and relapse. Treatment must help the person with substance use disorder relearn healthy risk vs. benefit analyses and behaviors to overwrite old reflexes.
Experts at NAPNAP 2026 emphasize the need for school-based interventions to address ongoing alcohol and marijuana use among diverse high school populations.
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Certain psychosocial and pharmacologic therapies may help people with cannabis use disorder achieve abstinence and reduce cannabis use frequency, per a network meta-analysis.
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