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Heroin Addiction: Medicine or Therapy? Medical Schools Consider Whether Key to Addiction Is More … – 89.3 KPCC

Heroin Addiction: Medicine or therapy? Medical schools consider whether key to addiction is more … – 89.3 KPCC


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Medicine or therapy? Medical schools consider whether key to addiction is more
89.3 KPCC
The 90's were the “decade of the brain,” until the success of medications like Suboxone—used to treat heroin addicts—made treating addiction look less like a matter for willpower and more like a matter for medical intervention. There's no silver

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Heroin Addiction: Graduates tell stories of how adult treatment court changed their lives – Royal Oak Daily Tribune

Graduates tell stories of how adult treatment court changed their lives
Royal Oak Daily Tribune
As is most often the case with teenagers, she never dreamed her dabbling with marijuana would evolve into heroin addiction. More than 20 years and multiple crimes later, she was sitting in Oakland County Jail pending sentencing.

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Heroin Addiction: Salt or cocaine, a fix is a basic instinct – New Scientist

Salt or cocaine, a fix is a basic instinct
New Scientist
They found that gratification genes had been activated – the same genes that are active in cocaine and heroin addicts when their craving has been satisfied. If the team used a drug to block the effects of dopamine, the neurotransmitter associated with

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Heroin Addiction: Long before ‘Celebrity Rehab,’ Betty Ford and famous centre paved road to recovery for stars
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Long before it became reality show fodder, Betty Ford helped create the original celebrity rehab. The centre that bears her name has a legacy of rehabbing Hollywood’s elite.
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