US approves J&J drug-resistant tuberculosis treatment
Her comments followed those of the FDA advisers who found the drug to be effective, though they noted that more deaths were seen in the group of patients who took bedaquiline in combination with standard treatments than in the group that took standard …
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Brain Surgery for Opioid Dependence
If there is a future for addiction treatment using stereotactic brain surgery, DBS is likely to become the procedure of choice, given the preference by the scientific community for non-permanent interventions. The recent follow-up study found that …
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McGreevey, NJ Jail Program Earn Spot At Sundance
That search led him to the Hudson County jail, where he works with Integrity House, a substance abuse treatment provider based in Newark, to help female inmates get back on their feet and stay upright. A former assistant prosecutor and onetime …
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Advocates seek stronger substance abuse treatment measures
… million went to prevention, treatment and research, according to the report. “For each dollar spent on the burden substance abuse creates on public programs, only 2 cents is spent on prevention activities and only slightly more, 3 cents, on …
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St. Matthew's House to launch substance abuse treatment program for women
1 reason people who want help do not receive substance abuse treatment is because they cannot afford it, according to the 2010 National Survey on Drug Use and Health. The mean cost of non-hospital residential care was $ 76 a day in 2004, the latest year …
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County signs agreement to provide short-term substance abuse treatment
… residential substance abuse pretreatment and housing. In a building at 327 S. Spring St. next to The Arch Halfway House, Carroll Institute will house as many as eight people daily who are awaiting court-ordered substance abuse treatment. The …
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Local treatment facilities see increased demand with alcohol, prescription …
The stereotypes about addiction — that somehow only lazy or weak-minded people grapple with substance abuse — can drive a man crazy. “I drank the way I do everything — to the extreme. That's how I do work, sports, everything,” said a 50-year-old …
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Riley Regan, Pioneer and Advocate in Alcoholism and Drug Treatment
For more than 20 years he was on the faculty of the Rutgers University Center for Alcohol Studies and taught at numerous colleges and universities throughout the country on alcoholism and drug abuse topics. Earlier in his career, he served as Deputy …
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Modesto zoning board OKs Nirvana treatment center
MODESTO — The city's Board of Zoning Adjustment has approved a drug and alcohol treatment center's request to operate a facility in the 800 block of Maze Boulevard, across the street from Franklin Elementary School in west Modesto. The Nirvana Drug …
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Advocates seek stronger substance abuse treatment measures
LITTLE ROCK — Substance abuse costs Arkansas about $ 888 million annually, but just 6 percent of Arkansans who need help with a drug addiction actually receive treatment, according to two legislative task force reports. State lawmakers are being urged …
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Oregon finds efforts to treat drug addicts paying off
That philosophy fuels Oregon's nationally reputed system of addiction care that officials, health experts and treatment professionals say provides lessons for Kentucky as it struggles with a crippling prescription drug-abuse problem and an overwhelmed …
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Celebrate Radio Network's Weekly Reaching Up to Focus on Substance Abuse …
Fass noted that, “In most parts of the country, there still is no place for teens to either seek affordable substance abuse treatment or even if in treatment, the necessary 12-step aftercare. … Substance Abuse Research at the University of Minnesota …
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Local treatment facilities see increased demand with alcohol, prescription …
The stereotypes about addiction — that somehow only lazy or weak-minded people grapple with substance abuse — can drive a man crazy. “I drank the way I do everything — to the extreme. That's how I do work, sports, everything,” said a 50-year-old …
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Will New York approve medical marijuana?
“It's a psychotropic drug,” says Brad Finn, the executive director of Prevention Network, an alcohol and drug abuse treatment and prevention center in Syracuse. Finn says he doesn't believe the relief some find in using marijuana is reliable. Dosage …
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Advocates seek stronger substance abuse treatment measures
LITTLE ROCK — Substance abuse costs Arkansas about $ 888 million annually, but just 6 percent of Arkansans who need help with a drug addiction actually receive treatment, according to two legislative task force reports. State lawmakers are being urged …
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Kaufman: Mental health, drug abuse cuts are hurting community
Today, with demand for public mental health and substance abuse services extremely high, especially at a time of severe economic distress, the crisis in behavioral health care continues. The impacts are felt throughout society as people go without the …
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