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Is It Possible to Erase Memories That Trigger Addictive Behaviors?

Is It Possible To Erase Memories That Trigger Addictive Behaviors?
In a most recent study from 2012, Chinese scientists led by Lin Lu at Peking University in Beijing used a retrieval-extinction process similar to Phelps and Schiller's to reduce cravings and relapse in heroin addicts. They showed that in abstinent …
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Stark County Jail is holding more mentally ill
Even more come with a drug addiction that only compounds the problem. “Since there's no capacity in the mental health system, there's no other place for them to sit other than jail,” Stump … The state Heartland Behavioral Health hospital in Massillon …
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Opinion: North Carolina should document new drug's use
However, research shows that the use of naloxone does not encourage more risky drug-related behavior. Studies of pilot programs also show that after administering the drug, there is often no need for further medical assistance — whether it be through …
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Help Wanted: Personal Tales Show Few Detox Options for Local Heroin Addicts – Palladium-Item

Help wanted: Personal tales show few detox options for local heroin addicts – Palladium-Item

Help wanted: Personal tales show few detox options for local heroin addicts
Palladium-Item
Bobbie Jo Rains, 28, left, and roommate Kayla Pauly, 24, at Cross Road Christian Recovery Center for Women. Rains is putting her life back together after heroin addiction and time in prison for crimes she committed. / Robert Sullivan/Palladium-Item …

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Heroin Detox – Google News

Save lives by educating on dangers of heroin: Your Say – USA TODAY

Save lives by educating on dangers of heroin: Your Say
USA TODAY
Rapid Opiate Detox. While we concern ourselves with illegal heroin dealers, our legal heroin dealer, Big Pharma, is pushing its synthetic heroin daily, and no one has anything to say about that. — Nathan Rue. I may be alone in this, but if an adult

Heroin Detox – Google News

Forum Focuses on Heroin Addiction in Connecticut

Forum focuses on heroin addiction in Connecticut
Burdett's scenario also touched upon the difficulty in getting treatment before going through inpatient detox at South Central Rehabilitation Center on Cedar Street, which is run by Hill Health. It took more than 300 calls to various centers, Burdett said.
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Experts say medicine can beat opiates
“We know that it takes three things for someone to be successful in recovery from opiate addiction: medication, either Vivitrol or Suboxone; behavioral health treatment, with counseling; and support services,” Demo-Hodgins said. Once addicted to heroin …
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Save Lives by Educating on Dangers of Heroin: Your Say – USA TODAY

Save lives by educating on dangers of heroin: Your Say – USA TODAY

Save lives by educating on dangers of heroin: Your Say
USA TODAY
Let's put medicine where judgment and punishment have failed. — Rapid Opiate Detox. While we concern ourselves with illegal heroin dealers, our legal heroin dealer, Big Pharma, is pushing its synthetic heroin daily, and no one has anything to say

Opiate Detox – Google News

Novel Nonopioid Approach Promising for Opioid Dependence – Medscape

Novel Nonopioid Approach Promising for Opioid Dependence
Medscape
ORLANDO, Florida ? A novel approach to opioid detoxification that does not involve the use of opioids may be superior to a protocol that includes buprenorphine. The results of a new study show that the combination of tizanidine (Zanaflex, Acorda …

Opiate Detox – Google News

County officials praise heroin addiction program – The Rock River Times

Alcoholism Rehab Leader Forays Into $23B Opium Addiction Treatment Market

Alcoholism rehab leader forays into B opium addiction treatment market
Los Angeles, CA, United States (4E) – A novel addiction treatment technology for alcoholics may also treat opioid or heroin dependence, which affects five million people in the U.S. and results to some 17,000 deaths yearly. Kent Emry, CEO of BioCoRx …
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Heroin Addicts Face Barriers to Treatment – NPR

Heroin Addicts Face Barriers To Treatment – NPR

Heroin Addicts Face Barriers To Treatment
NPR
The doctors shook their heads: Heroin withdrawal is not life-threatening, they said, and we can't admit you. They gave him an IV flush, and sent him home. Marchese, then 26, and his sister called multiple inpatient clinics only to be told: We have no beds.

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Heroin Withdrawal – Google News

Coroner: Bucks inmate died of heart failure during heroin withdrawal – Bucks County Courier Times

Coroner: Bucks inmate died of heart failure during heroin withdrawal
Bucks County Courier Times
heroin withdrawal By Jo Ciavaglia Staff writer Bucks County Courier Times. A 49-year-old Bensalem woman found dead inside her Bucks County prison cell suffered sudden cardiac death during heroin detoxification, according to the Bucks County coroner.
Prisoner found dead in cellWFMZ Allentown
Coroner: Woman's death in Philly-area prison due to heart attack during heroin The Republic
Coroner: Bucks County prison death due to heart attackThe Reporter

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