Novel Opioid Dependence Pill Gets Patients' Thumbs-Up – Medscape
Novel Opioid Dependence Pill Gets Patients' Thumbs-Up – Medscape
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… A novel sublingual formulation of buprenorphine-naloxone has a significantly preferred taste and overall acceptability compared with a commercially available film form of the drug, which is indicated for opioid-dependence maintenance treatment, a …
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FDA Bars Generic OxyContin
Filed under: drug abuse treatment outcome study
The decision by the F.D.A. comes at a time when the efficacy of strong narcotics like OxyContin for the treatment of long-term pain has come under increasing scrutiny. Citing poor outcomes, some insurers are also seeking to limit how doctors use the drugs.
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Prescription Drug Use Among Teens a Crisis in Missoula – Missoulian
Prescription drug use among teens a crisis in Missoula – Missoulian
Filed under: drug addiction treatment statistics
Interview with Dr. Marc Mentel from Community Medical Center in Missoula on prescription drug addiction. … Saturday: What are the options for addiction treatment in Missoula? …. National statistics and state statistics prove the case, as does local …
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Jacques Rousseau
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Native American Answers Only: What Are Your Thoughts of Natives That Don’t Get the Helping Hand They Deserve?
Question by REUBEN B: Native American answers only: What are your thoughts of natives that don’t get the helping hand they deserve?
like how natives are just pushed to the side in health care, drug treatments and the likes. most natives who are charged with crimes as they call them like alcohol abuse, drug abuse, and homelessness. they really don’t try to get the natives in treatment they just let them go home where they will more than likely turn back to the vises that are plaguing the native community. just want to know your native thoughts on such a dire situation.
FOSTERING RESEARCH
FOSTERING RESEARCH
Filed under: drug abuse statistics
Q: Before becoming vice chancellor, you worked with substance-abuse issues — why was this your specialty? A: Alcohol and drug abuse are top causes of preventable deaths. Science, and science-informed public policy, can change that and save lives.
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Stanislaus County drug agents seize 290 pounds of meth in Ceres bust
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According to the Modesto Police Department, agents with the Stanislaus Drug Enforcement Agency, the Modesto Narcotics Enforcement Team and Homeland Security Investigations served a search warrant at a home on Hardy Court in Ceres after receiving an …
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Brooke Mueller Lost Sons Due to Prescription Drug Addiction
Brooke Mueller lost sons due to prescription drug addiction
Filed under: drug abuse
Mueller has battled substance abuse on and off for several years, and her latest stint in rehab was in December 2012. According to an article published May 6 on USA Today, Mueller is hospitalized at UCLA Medical Center for treatment of her addiction to …
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Teen Prescription Drug Abuse Jumps 33% – Alcoholism – About.com
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Drug-Related Crime Has Community at Crossroads
Drug-related crime has community at crossroads
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Annie Short of the Healthiest Manitowoc County Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition shared statistics buttressing the reputation and reality that Wisconsin has a heavy drinking culture with costly consequences, both financially and lives lost. In 2011 …
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President Obama, the Drug War, and Mexico: Failure Is an Option
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Mortality statistics indicate that drug-related deaths now exceed auto fatalities in the U.S. Prescription drug abuse reportedly claims a life every 19 minutes in the U.S. and has reached epidemic proportions. The White House still retains the power to …
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