The Connection Between Alcoholism and Drug Abuse
The connection between alcoholism and drug abuse
Filed under: drug addiction
According to drug-addiction-help.org, a website for drug treatment resources, multiple drug addictions in the U.S. have increased by 20 percent over the past decade, and the usage of five or more different substances has grown by 70 percent. The reason …
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Heroin Vaccine Treats Drug Addiction in Rats
Filed under: drug addiction
Relapse can be a particularly sinister aspect of drug addiction. Now scientists are getting closer to a vaccine that can bind heroin in the bloodstream and therefore prevent it from acting on the brain. A heroin vaccine has been sought after for some …
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Isabel Allende on “Maya’s Notebook,” Drug Addiction, 1973 Chilean Coup & Death of Poet Pablo Neruda – http://www.democracynow.org – The best-selling Chilean novelist Isabel Allende is out with a new book, “Maya’s Notebook: A Novel.” It tells the story of a te…