Schick Shadel Hospital

Schick Shadel Hospital combines classic Pavlovian conditioning, with contemporary taste aversion learning to eliminate the craving for alcohol and other drugs (cocaine, methamphetamine, marijuana, and prescription opiates). Alcoholism and other substance dependencies now are widely recognized as being highly treatable brain diseases. These dependencies are no longer viewed as intractable consequences of moral insufficiencies or self-control defects. Akin to patients having other life-threatening diseases, persons with substance addictions typically suffer from recurrent relapses.