Pregnant Woman Forced Into Drug-Treatment Program Despite Being Drug-Free …
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New York Alcohol Rehab Announces No-Cost Consultations Now Available For …
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Iran Opens First Alcohol Rehab Center
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Drug Rehab Acworth Revamps Addiction Treatment With Great Success
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Question by :): What percentage of the United States are drug addicts?
I dont want a number, i want a percentage and according to who is that percentage obtained? I need this for an essay and i have looked it up on google but they keep giving me number not a percentage. Thanks

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Answer by Spykerz
What percentage voted for Obama?

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Drug Treatment Facility Gets Another Look in Chester Twp. Monday
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Drug Rehab Center Wayne Opens Doors for Those Struggling with Addiction
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LA County audit finds failures in oversight of drug rehab clinics
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In Focus: Raising awareness of prescription drug abuse
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Prescription drug abuse now more deadly than heroin, cocaine combined
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Prescription Drug Abuse Rising, California Fights Back
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Krokodil use reportedly spreading: What makes dangerous drug so addictive?
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New Hampshire's addiction to prescription drugs higher than national average
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Low-income drug addicts struggle to get treated
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Drug Rehab Duluth Refocuses the View of Addiction
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Opiate Addiction Help is Key Focus at Drug Rehab Woodstock
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Drug Rehab Statesboro Faces Opiate Addiction Head On and Wins
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Question by Melissa M: My Future Career? Can Someone Help Me?
Ok, so I change my mind all the time. And right now I’m thinking about becoming a child psychologist (which I confuse with psychiatrist)

Basically I need to know the following things:

1. Whats the difference between the two?
2. How many years (and of what kind) of school does it require?
3. How much money is made on average a year?
4. Some specifics about the actual job?

Answer these for each..

Thank You

Also could you tell me the sites where you found this information, and perhaps some good ones that I could research them by myself?

Best answer:

Answer by Collegeplanner
The short answer is, psychiatrists are medical doctors and psychologists are not. The suffix “-iatry” means “medical treatment,” and “-logy” means “science” or “theory.” So psychiatry is the medical treatment of the psyche, and psychology is the science of the psyche.

Their Credentials
Psychiatrists begin their careers in medical school. After earning their MD, they go on to four years of residency training in mental health, typically at a hospital’s psychiatric department.

According to Marcia Goin, MD, past-president of the American Psychiatric Association and a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Southern California, psychiatric residencies include a range of subspecialized training, such as working with children and adolescents.

After completing their residency, these physicians can be licensed to practice psychiatry.

Psychologists go through five to seven years of academic graduate study, culminating in a doctorate degree. They may hold a PhD or a PsyD. Those who are mainly interested in clinical psychology — treating patients as opposed to focusing on research — may pursue a PsyD.

Licensing requirements for psychologists vary from state to state, but at least a one- or two-year internship is required to apply for a license to practice psychology.

Prescribing Powers
As medical doctors, psychiatrists can do what most psychologists in the United States cannot: They can prescribe drugs.

Recently the state of Louisiana allowed psychologists to write prescriptions after consulting with a psychiatrist, joining the state of New Mexico, which allowed psychologists to begin prescribing in 2002.

A common misconception about psychiatrists is that they only treat people with severe mental illness, like schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, diseases for which medication is the mainstay of treatment, leaving psychotherapy to psychologists and patients with less severe problems.

Psychiatrists who work at clinics and hospitals certainly see many hard cases. “The major patients they see are severely mentally ill, but there are others who are not,” Goin tells WebMD. She says she practices a lot of psychotherapy in her private office and that most of her patients there are not on medication.

Increasingly, however, psychiatrists in private practice spend their time with medication management and not psychotherapy. Other mental health providers usually do therapy sessions, and when they see a patient who could benefit from medication, they send the patient to a psychiatrist for an evaluation and possibly a prescription.

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