Nurses help addicts inject heroin at controversial clinic battling H.I.V.
British Columbia has successfully stemmed an epidemic of AIDS in one of the hardest to reach populations: intravenous drug addicts. Correspondent William Brangham examines the ways that medical professionals are taking on the spread of H.I.V, including …
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Medications can help heroin addicts kick habit
BUCYRUS — Medication-assisted treatment for addiction was at the forefront of discussion during an educational meeting Tuesday evening at Bucyrus High School. Dr. Gregory Brigham, a board-certified clinical psychologist and addictions treatment …
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Mom told to seek help for addiction
Tyanne Hamer, 20, was ordered by Judge David Tulowitzki to get a drug and alcohol assessment and seek help for her heroin addiction. Hamer, of Oakhurst Homes, pleaded guilty to endangering the welfare of children and drug possession stemming from …
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Treating China's Internet addicts
Treatment for Internet addiction is now available in the U.S. Last September, the country's first inpatient treatment program for Internet addiction opened in Pennsylvania. The program features 10-day treatments beginning with a two-day "digital detox …
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The War Within: Portraits of Vietnam Veterans Fighting Heroin Addiction
Caption from LIFE. "The tears that rolled down Chad Harris's cheeks were partly a symptom of withdrawal: he hadn't had a fix in 14 hours. But he was also crying out of fear that he wouldn't be accepted into the drug treatment program at California's …
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Top 10 Things CDC Says You Should Know
Linebacker Austin Box of the Oklahoma Sooners takes a break during a game in 2010. Box died of an accidental prescription drug overdose the following year. Austin Box "gutted through" pain. Even after a bad blow to his back that ruptured a disc, the …
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Which Prescription Drugs Do Americans Abuse Most?
According to a 2010 study by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, approximately 7 million people in the United States — or 2.7 percent of the population — annually abuse prescription drugs. This abuse primarily occurs when people take medication not …
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Silver: Assembly Ethics Committee could decide Katz's post on Drug Abuse …
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan, said today that he would leave it to the Assembly Ethics Committee to decide whether Assemblyman Steve Katz should remain on the chamber's Committee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse. katz3 Katz …
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