Treating Drug-Dependent Babies – WWLP.com

Treating drug-dependent babies – WWLP.com

Filed under: drug abuse treatment

The baby is one of many infants born dependent on drugs. He is being treated at East Tennessee Children's Hospital in Knoxville, where doctors and nurses are on the front lines fighting the nation's prescription drug epidemic. Drug abuse in the state …
Read more on WWLP 22News

 

Brooklyn Treatment Court: A Second Chance for Drug Offenders

Filed under: drug abuse treatment

A drug offender has just finished the first phase of a model substance abuse treatment program. As the applause subsides the judge hands a certificate to the young man standing before her. He has now been "clean and compliant" for four months. "You …
Read more on Huffington Post

 

LIGHTLAKE THERAPEUTICS INC. : to Develop Opioid Drug Treatment in

Filed under: drug abuse treatment

Lightlake is also applying its technology to develop a treatment for managing the complications of opioid drug addiction in collaboration with the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health. 1 Johnston, L. D., O …
Read more on 4-traders (press release)