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Law Gives Veterans Better Options Than Jail

Law Gives Veterans Better Options Than Jail

Filed under: drug addiction news 2010

Military members' rates of prescription drug abuse quintupled between 2002 and 2010, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The most prevalent problem among veterans, though, is alcohol abuse. A study of Army soldiers newly returned… Continue reading

Monitor Says Celgene Cancer Drug Meets Late-Stage Goals

Monitor says Celgene cancer drug meets late-stage goals

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The study's data safety monitoring board also determined that the pomalidomide drug, given in combination with a low dose of existing treatment dexamethasone, was superior to a high dose of the existing treatment in improving overall survival… Continue reading

Reel Recovery Film Fest Brings Hope Into Focus

Reel Recovery film fest brings hope into focus

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"It's a story about addiction that you have never heard before," he says in an online preview. "There's no fried eggs in a pan, pictures of the brain, needles hanging out of people's arms. It's a… Continue reading

Drug Court Graduates Thankful, Hopeful

Drug court graduates thankful, hopeful

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"I was addicted to crack and heroin. Being arrested was a real slap in the face, but a slap in the face wasn't what I needed. What I needed was drug court," he said. Knowing how badly his family needed… Continue reading

Strategies Would Help Against Drug Abuse

Strategies would help against drug abuse

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Rampant drug use is, in no doubt, one of the most critical issues currently plaguing the citizens of Putnam County. One could simply turn on the nightly news or read the daily newspaper any given day and almost certainly… Continue reading

Russia Offers New Methods to Treat Drug Addiction

Russia offers new methods to treat drug addiction

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Methods to treat drug addiction, offered by Russian specialists, may prove revolutionary. The latter are working out new medicines that destroy the memory of brain receptors for drugs. Members of the State Anti-Drug Committee of the… Continue reading

Indian Bureaucracy Slows Treatment of Tuberculosis

Indian Bureaucracy Slows Treatment of Tuberculosis

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… that appear to be saving her life. Mrs. Sheikh, whose six-year descent to ever-more-resistant TB was reported last month in a front-page article in The Wall Street Journal, is one of 16 patients identified by Mumbai doctors… Continue reading

Go to the Real Source to Help Fight Drug Abuse

Go to the real source to help fight drug abuse

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Numbers tell the story about the alarming and deadly rise in prescription drug abuse. Just how deadly became clear when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention produced a chart showing that more people… Continue reading