The Existential Pain of Being Young, White, and Affluent

Published March 9, 2013

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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… DNA to customize treatments for drug and alcohol addiction. Gene sequencing is becoming so increasingly affordable that the head of the Harris Lab at the Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research at the University of Texas said eventually …
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God's next assignment for Joey Butler: Dying

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Despite an operation that took his left kidney, numerous treatments and trips to the University of Kansas Cancer Center and to MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, nothing worked. He has decided there will be no more treatments. “It's been a raging …
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