Curing Addiction: Twelve Steps or Fixing the Brain?
Curing addiction: Twelve Steps or fixing the brain?
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The personal stories that have emerged out of addiction literature reveal that the Alcoholics Anonymous model has been thoroughly ingrained into the wider story of addiction. This may affect individuals' experience of the condition. It's possible that …
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Tracking the homeless
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When I hear their stories it breaks my heart to hear the abuse and neglect they have experienced. … “Many chronically homeless people have a serious mental illness like schizophrenia and/or an alcohol or drug addiction,” according to the alliance.
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Operation OpioidSAFE Rescues Wounded Soldiers From Prescription Drug …
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13, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — The United States Army is taking action to help wounded soldiers avoid the added crisis of a prescription drug addiction. Doctors and researchers are now emphasizing providing non-pharmaceutical treatment for pain related …
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Ad hoc: Biofrontera receives CE-certificate for its PDT lamp BF-RhodoLED(R)
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BF-RhodoLED ® is an LED red light specifically developed by Biofrontera for the use in Photodynamic Therapy (PDT). This therapy combines a prescription drug, f.i. Biofrontera's Ameluz ®, with an about 10-minute red light illumination for the treatment …
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