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Personalized Medicine May Be Good For Patients But Bad For Drug Companies …
A similar finding came in a 2012 report from Stanford University researchers that genetics plays a significant role in determining which patients will experience the most severe side effects of opiate pain medications such as morphine, methadone and …
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Deputies make two felony drug arrests
The search resulted in the recovery of “four methadone pills and a small, clear plastic bag containing marijuana,” Saucier said. Brinson was then charged with felony possession of a controlled substance — the methadone — and possession of marijuana …
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Ontario's Ring Of Fire Brings Opportunity And Fears To First Nations
For a time, there was hope the route would bring prosperity and include No. 58 in the burgeoning regional …. Chief Towehishig is frustrated that his community spends its money in Longlac, but believes that if he and the other Matawa chiefs can …
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Behind the pharmacy counter, the unseen drug theft problem
One pharmacy technician stole 737 tablets of Suboxone, a methadone-like medication used to treat drug addiction; 8,724 tablets of Hydrocodone, a narcotic pain reliever; 600 tablets of Phentermine, a diet drug that's also a stimulant; and 410 tablets of …
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Alcoholics Need More Options than AA
Nearly eight out of ten private programs use 12-step recovery, with two-thirds compelling patients to attend meetings, according to researchers working on the University of Georgia's National Treatment Center Study and cited in Inside Rehab by Anne …
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Notts: County Council sets out its position on drugs and alcohol treatment …
Nottinghamshire County Council's public consultation into how substance misuse treatment and recovery services in the county are delivered ends today (Friday) with Coun Joyce Bosnjak, chairman of the county's health and wellbeing board, welcoming the …
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Giving Your Money to Drug Addicts
My mom used to live in Chicago and would always carry $ 5 and $ 1 bills wrapped around home made business cards that she had printed with information on local homeless shelters, addiction recovery centers, food pantries, Churches, and a promise to pray …
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Another View: Healthy moms on methadone can safely breast-feed
I hope that this tragedy does not deter healthy mothers in recovery from opiate addiction on methadone from nursing their newborn babies. There is convincing international evidence that this is the ideal care for these babies, just as it is for other …
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