Pharmacists, Guardians of Drugs, Sometimes Steal Them

Pharmacists, guardians of drugs, sometimes steal them
Of 64 pharmacists the pharmacy board took action against between 2011 and 2013, 41 were suspected of or had engaged in drug diversion, a State Journal analysis found. Many of the thefts were for personal use. Pharmacists are trained to guard …
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Smoking tied to changes in the structure of teen brains
However, among smokers, those who reported smoking more cigarettes tended to have a thinner insula, a region of the cerebral cortex involved in decision making, according to results published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology. The effects …
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Track Drug Use and High-Risk Behaviors with Twitter
The study, published in the journal Preventive Medicine, suggests it may be possible to predict sexual risk and drug use behaviors by monitoring tweets, mapping where those messages come from and linking them with data on the geographical distribution …
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