China to Build More Drug Rehab Institutions
China to build more drug rehab institutions
Filed under: drug treatment centers
Since 2006, a total of 25 such rehab centers have been operating in 14 provinces and have taken in about 51,000 drug addicts, Wu said at a meeting. The centers are open to drug users who volunteer to receive rehabilitation treatment and those who leave …
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Drug Court: It's not punishment, it changes lives
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Sometimes the hard knocks of life lead people to make bad choices that send their lives spiraling downward until drugs and alcohol consume everything about them. This is where the drug court directors, county judges and treatment centers step in to …
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Kidneys Sometimes Removed Unnecessarily Due to Misdiagnosis of Genetic …
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Proper diagnosis could have led to treatment that would have made surgery or kidney removal unnecessary, according to John Bissler, MD, a nephrologist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and lead author of the study. "I can't tell you how …
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Drug-Resistant Melanoma Tumors Shrink When Therapy Is Interrupted
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As described this week in the journal Nature, the team built upon this basic discovery and showed that adjusting the dosing of the drug and introducing an on-again, off-again treatment schedule prolonged the life of mice with melanoma. … McMahon is …
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