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Free Tin Foil for Drug Addicts Could Help Them Seek Treatment, Says Theresa

Free Tin Foil For Drug Addicts Could Help Them Seek Treatment, Says Theresa

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Drug addicts are to be offered free foil – typically used as a surface to heat substances such as heroin – to encourage them to take up treatment and to reduce health risks, the Home Secretary has announced. The Government is to introduce laws to make …
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Doctors under contract with the California Department of Corrections and …

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Nurse Arrested for Illegally Obtaining Prescription Drugs

Nurse arrested for illegally obtaining prescription drugs

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Nurse arrested for illegally obtaining prescription drugs. Images. Reported by: Mel Carlock. Email: [email protected]. Set Text Size Small, Set Text Size Medium, Set Text Size Large, Set Text Size X-Large. Print Story. Published: 7/01 4:48 pm. Share.
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The Unlikely Force Driving Teen Prescription Drug Addiction: Parents?

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Pennsylvania Hospitals' Ban on Hiring Smokers Stirs Debate

Pennsylvania Hospitals' Ban On Hiring Smokers Stirs Debate

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The move has generated criticism among civil liberties activists, hospital employees and even doctors who fear that smokers will lie about their habit – and therefore become less likely to seek help in stopping it. "It's not all slopes that are …
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The Financial Implication Of Violence In Chattanooga

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Brain's 'Dark Side' as Key to Cocaine Addiction

Brain's 'dark side' as key to cocaine addiction

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The same kappa opioid receptor-blocking treatment (antagonist) also reduced two standard signs of addiction in cocaine-using rats — the escalating hyperactive behavior each time the drug is taken and the anxiety-like behavior during withdrawal.
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Motivation Lacking For Many Marijuana Users

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The users in the study had all experienced psychotic-like symptoms while smoking the drug, such as strange sensations or bizarre thoughts like feeling as though they are being threatened. The researchers expected the dopamine levels might be higher in …
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Betty Ford Center, Hazelden Consider Possible Alliance

Betty Ford Center, Hazelden consider possible alliance

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The Betty Ford Center and the Hazelden Foundation, two leading substance abuse treatment centers, are exploring the possibility of a formal business alliance, in large part because of the influx of new patients expected as a result of the Affordable …
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DEA Wages Hemp War Behind The Scenes In House

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The Mellow Men of Michigan: Bo Schembechler's Gridiron Sons

The Mellow Men of Michigan: Bo Schembechler's Gridiron Sons

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The seven former tenants of 1345 Geddes Road were once the largest group of African-Americans on scholarship in Michigan history. Although George Jewett became the first African-American to letter in football …. Finally, Billy Taylor runs Get Back Up …
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New Research: Nationwide Report Shows Prescribed Drugs Not Detected in

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