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Medicine or Therapy? Medical Schools Consider Whether Key to Addiction Is More Will Power or Medical Intervention – 89.3 KPCC
Heroin Addiction: Medicine or therapy? Medical schools consider whether key to addiction is more will power or medical intervention – 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 …
Heroin Addiction – Bing News
Heroin Addiction: Two men sentenced to jail for heroin thefts – Dowagiac News
That certainly was on display Friday at Cass County Circuit Court when two local men were sentenced to jail for thefts that supported heroin addictions. Dustin Gordon, 20, of Edwardsburg, was sentenced to 210 days in jail and two years of probation.
Heroin Addiction – Bing News
Heroin Addiction: Drug meant to treat heroin users being used to get high – KOB.com
Suboxone is a little pill meant to help heroin users kick the habit and now it’s being abused. “It’s supposed to, but from what the addicts say it’s just another alternative for heroin,” said the undercover officer. Adding, “There’s a lot of people out on …
Heroin Addiction – Bing News
Appetite for Salt, Heroin Share Brain Pathways
Heroin Addiction in the News
Heroin Addiction: Appetite For Salt, Heroin Share Brain Pathways
Study Says Findings Shed Light On Addiction, Appetite Last week, we reported on a study on how fatty foods triggered marijuana-like chemicals in the body (http://bit.ly/pDMcxb). Now, we move onto the hard stuff: salt, cocaine and opiates.
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Heroin Addiction: New Mexico leads the country in heroin-related deaths
Heroin commonly is abused in New Mexico, as evidenced by the number of heroin-related deaths and treatment admissions.
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Heroin Addiction: A passion for hope:
raising awareness about the dangers of substance abuse BATAVIA—Chris’ Walk began four years ago after Vicki Altepeter Foley lost her son Chris to a heroin overdose.
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Heroin Addiction: Kendal woman overdosed on her medication
A BIG Issue seller found dead at her flat had overdosed on drugs prescribed to help her end her heroin addiction, an inquest heard.
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