'Tweaking Memories' Could Help Addicts Avoid Relapsing

'Tweaking memories' could help addicts avoid relapsing

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Manipulating memories of drug use may help reformed addicts avoid a return to a life of drug abuse, according to scientists in China. They said memories linking "cues" – such as needles or cigarettes – and the pleasurable effects of drugs caused …
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New battle plan launched against drug overdoses

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Malik Ashhali was a recovering drug addict. He had been clean for 12 years when he was diagnosed with tuberculosis in 2006. The doctor providing treatment offered to write a full prescription for hydrocodone. Had Ashhali not been aware enough of his …
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Prescription drug abuse bill on call for special session of legislature that …

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The General Assembly will try again next week to pass a bill intended to curb prescription drug abuse in a state where more people are dying from overdoes than car wrecks. Lawmakers adjourned the 2012 legislative session Thursday without passing …
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