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Alternative Therapies for Drugs Await Religious Nod
Alternative therapies for drugs await religious nod
Saudi Gazette report JEDDAH – Alternative therapies like methadone, which can reduce heroin withdrawal symptoms, are still waiting for a religious decree to sanction their use in the Kingdom to treat drug addiction cases, according to Dr. Muhammad Shawoosh, former medical director of Al-Amal Hospital. "Alternative therapies don’t have dangerous side effects and can be used to help drug addicts …
Heroin Addiction – Yahoo News Search Results
Heroin overdose deaths on rise in New Britain
Fatal heroin and opiate overdoses have spiked locally, mirroring an alarming state and national trend.
Heroin Addiction – Yahoo News Search Results
This Program Would Save Heroin Addicts’ Lives, Help Curb Disease and Save … – Huffington Post
This Program Would Save Heroin Addicts’ Lives, Help Curb Disease And Save … – Huffington Post
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This Program Would Save Heroin Addicts' Lives, Help Curb Disease And Save …
Huffington Post Tens of thousands of Americans die of HIV and hepatitis each year, and both diseases are strongly linked to intravenous drug use. Many of these lives could be saved through clean needle exchanges, which are illegal in 26 states. | Spencer Platt via … |
Heroin Addiction – Google News
Rise in heroin use leads to more patients at treatment centers – Insurance News Net (press release)
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Rise in heroin use leads to more patients at treatment centers
Insurance News Net (press release) March 17– In 2013, 43 percent of the Wilmington Treatment Center's 2,421 patients were treated for opiate addiction. Bernard Gottschalk, medical director of Wilmington Treatment Center, said opiate addicts have an 85 percent relapse rate. But there is … |
Heroin Addiction & the Social Stigma of Rehab
Heroin Addiction & the Social Stigma of Rehab
The recent rash of deaths from heroin laced with fentanyl, and the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman have brought attention to the need for more efficient clinical treatment for drug addiction. Gateway Rehab Medical Director Dr. Neil Capretto works with …
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Iran not doing enough to address drug addiction
As for addicts, although they ought, according to the law, to be made to abandon drug consumption, there is a lack of adequate resources for this because there is such a small number of rehabilitation centers in the country, and the courts do not get …
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Heroin Epidemic: Man’s Suspected Overdose Death Shines Light on Treatment … – the Plain Dealer
Heroin Epidemic: Man’s suspected overdose death shines light on treatment … – The Plain Dealer
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Heroin Epidemic: Man's suspected overdose death shines light on treatment …
The Plain Dealer That fact is not lost on County officials: After a patient completes a detox program, whether court-ordered or voluntary, they're released with a letter warning them that if they relapse and take the same dose of heroin they did before their sobriety … |
An inside look at the Drug & Alcohol Detox at Passages Addiction Treatment Center – Passages Malibu includes an alcohol and drug detox center that is supervised by a medical staff, including a medical director and licensed nurses, who are av…
The Brutal Business of Heroin Brings Wave of Overdoses in Pa.
The Brutal Business Of Heroin Brings Wave Of Overdoses In Pa.
According to state and local authorities, 22 people in Western Pennsylvania have died of heroin overdose in less than two weeks. The wave of deaths is due to the appearance of an especially potent batch of heroin, mixed with the painkiller Fentanyl. NPR's Arun Rath speaks with Dr. Neil Capretto, medical director of the Gateway Rehabilitation Center in Pittsburgh.
Heroin Withdrawal – Yahoo News Search Results
Heroin, painkillers 'destroyed everything': How an Ithaca man went from addiction to recovery
At 14, Marcus was no stranger to drugs.
Heroin Withdrawal – Yahoo News Search Results
Actor's Overdose Death Sheds New Light on Fentanyl-Laced Heroin Issue
Actor's Overdose Death Sheds New Light On Fentanyl-Laced Heroin Issue
Capretto, Medical Director of Gateway Rehabilitation Center, says brain cells are actually changed by substance abuse and that especially with heroin, a person's tolerance for the drug goes down with sobriety. “If they try to use what they did back in …
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New wave of heroin claims Hoffman and others
In this Monday, May 6, 2013 file photo, a drug addict prepares a needle to inject himself with heroin in front of a church in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles. It's not a rare scene on Skid Row to spot addicts using drugs in the open, even when police …
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