Commissioner's View: Take Action on Methadone, Other Drugs
Commissioner's view: Take action on methadone, other drugs
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Addiction to prescription drugs and other opiates is a growing crisis, so much so that the Minnesota State Substance Abuse Strategy released last year identified it as a top priority. Ironically, the problem extends to a drug used to treat heroin and …
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Forgery defendant to be screened for substance abuse treatment
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Op-Ed: Let Parents Help Drug-Troubled Teens
Op-ed: Let parents help drug-troubled teens
Filed under: teen drug abuse
If she didn't want more, that was that. Why does a teen with drug addiction and mental health issues get to “decide” on her own her health care? Many addicts say they turned around for the better when placed in jail. They are forced to. I wanted to …
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Doctor Offers Solutions for Healthcare — Without ObamaCare
Doctor Offers Solutions for Healthcare — Without ObamaCare
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In an exclusive video interview, Dr. Alieta Eck, co-founder of the Zarephath Health Center and former president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, offered her prescription for real solutions to the nation's healthcare crisis. (The …
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Ministries help ex-offenders re-enter society beyond prison
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The Existential Pain of Being Young, White, and Affluent
The Existential Pain of Being Young, White, and Affluent
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This would have been fairly easy to answer some years ago when the opioid abuse so regnant in low-income, rural communities (pigeonholed as "hillbilly heroin") was the role prescription drug addiction seemed to be playing on the national stage …
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Researcher foresees DNA data in treating addiction
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Agility Clinical Partners With PSR Orphan Drug Experts
Agility Clinical Partners with PSR Orphan Drug Experts
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The number of rare diseases for which no treatment is currently available is estimated at approximately 6,800, according to the National Institute of Health (NIH). Nearly 30 million Americans, almost 1 in 10, are affected by a rare disease. Orphan …
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Court Intervention Alliance graduates first class
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Demand Surges at Halifax Needle Exchange
Demand surges at Halifax needle exchange
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The Mainline Needle Exchange is a non-profit group dedicated to supporting current and former drug users through harm reduction strategies. Part of that … to Oxycontin. There are also controversial "safe" crack kits that are designed to prevent …
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Repercussions of attorney's arrest
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Repercussions of attorney's arrest. A well-known Muskegon defense attorney now needs legal counsel himself after being arrested on a drug charge. … The increased charge is treated as a felony in Michigan, Muskegon County Prosecutor D.J. Hilson …
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