Drug Program in Jeopardy for Pregnant Women
Drug program in jeopardy for pregnant women
Babies with opiate-withdrawal symptoms are often born premature, with low birth-weights and disrupted heart rates and motor skills. NAS can also impact the baby's sensory stimulation, sleep and feeding patterns. Funded primarily with government grants, …
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Combat Vets Battle an Enemy Within: Addiction
In 12 years after 9/11, prescriptions of four primary opiate painkillers — oxycodone, hydrocodone, morphine, and methadone — rose 270 percent at VA hospitals, according to internal VA records obtained by the Center for Investigative Reporting. Last …
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HIV/AIDS explodes in Russia as Putin eschews “western” science
Around 58% of those new Russian HIV infections are from IV drug use – Russia has one of the worst heroin problems in the world (and then when the government tried to stamp out heroin use, everyone switched to an even worse drug, the flesh-eating …
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