Can We Trust Addiction Medication?
Can we trust addiction medication?
Filed under: Causes of Drug Abuse and Addiction
But for Willenbring, who is both a clinician and a researcher, this challenge is cause for tailoring the best treatment to the right patient and, most definitely, not for throwing out the prescriptions with the heroin. We have a few excellent tools at …
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Drug laws and evidence-based policy: it's time to start doing experiments on …
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Do we want a) to reduce drug use no matter what, or b) to reduce the harm caused by drugs, without necessarily caring how many people take them? And do we draw distinctions? Are we happy with a nation of drinkers, or caffeine addicts, but not of …
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Advocating abstinence is not an answer to heroin abuse problem
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Decades of failed drug policies still do not seem to have got the message across that "just say no" and its variants is not a sound basis for policy, yet many politicians want to go further down the path. Ruth Davidson criticises methadone as …
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Detained drug addict attacks guard, attempts escape
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BEIRUT: A drug addict detained in Baabda's Justice Palace attacked security forces as he attempted to escape overnight Monday, injuring one prison guard, security sources said. According to the sources, Mohammad Shokr, who was arrested for drug abuse, …
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