Help Is on the Way for Young Fentanyl Addicts

Help is on the way for young fentanyl addicts

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Her son was 17 when he tried the drug at a party and was hooked. In the middle of Grade 12, he was kicked out of St. Mark Catholic High School in Manotick and sent to rehab. Within three weeks, he was living at the Dave Smith Youth Treatment Centre, …
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Vivitrol is the new hope for solving opiate addiction

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Medication-assisted treatment says Elinor McCance-Katz, medical director for the state of California's Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs, is considered the standard in treating addiction. “Opiate addiction is very, very difficult to treat,” she says.
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DNA swab sees bank raider jailed 14 years on

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Sher Hei-shing, 45, had been on the run until he was arrested in 2011 on an unrelated charge of drug possession. Sher was sentenced to a drug rehabilitation center in November 2011 and his connection to the 1999 robbery came to light after police …
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Think that massage feels good? Try adding drugs

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A drug that evokes a similar response in humans could boost the beneficial effects of skin-to-skin contact such as massage in rehabilitation or for psychiatric conditions, says Johan Wessberg at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. Interactions …
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