More Afghan Opium May Mean More Pakistani Addicts

More Afghan Opium May Mean More Pakistani Addicts

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Dr. Saleem Azam, who heads a rehabilitation center in Karachi, said drugs are easily available. "These are available like peanuts; you are sitting in your office, you are sitting in your bedroom, you are sitting in your living room, you can call a …
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Co. developing spinal-cord injury drug settles in Cambridge

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Traumatic spinal cord injury affects more than 12,000 Americans each year, mainly from motor vehicle accidents. The only current treatment is surgery and rehabilitation. “By treating patients with a drug like Cethrin and aggressive rehab,” McKerracher …
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Concerns On Ending Methadone Treatment

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… methadone services are better suited to community rehabilitation centers than jails. However, Taneja said methadone makes inmates more responsive to treatment, and a sudden stop to the program will increase the amount of illegal drugs at the prison.
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Daily: Should drugs be legalized?

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Should all drugs be legalized? What about marijuana? With the recent legalization of recreational use of marijuana in Colorado and Washington the larger issue of the legalization of all drugs in the United States has come into question. Supporters who …
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