Is Drug Addiction Really Like ‘Any Other Chronic Illness’? – PJ Media

Is Drug Addiction Really Like ‘Any Other Chronic Illness’? – PJ Media


PJ Media

Is Drug Addiction Really Like 'Any Other Chronic Illness'?
PJ Media
It certainly works in Singapore, if by working we mean a consequent low rate of drug use; but Singapore is a small city state with very few points of entry that can hardly be a model for larger polities. It also seems to work in Sweden, which had the

drug addiction – Google News

 

Groups seek solutions to area's prescription drug abuse epidemic
According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), the most effective way to treat addiction is to combine treatment medications with behavioral thera p y. Frontier Health is one of the main service providers of addiction treatment in the area …
Read more on Kingsport Times News

 

Bills would give state new powers to fight prescription drug abuse
Brown, who as attorney general railed against prescription drug abuse and pill-pushing doctors, declined through a spokesman to say how he would respond to the bills. The proposed legislation was spurred by a series of investigative reports in The …
Read more on Los Angeles Times

 

Integrated Behavorial Health Conference tackles drug abuse, other mental
September 18, 2013 · West Virginia's substance abuse problem is one focus of the Integrated Behavioral Health Conference in Charleston this week. Professionals from health care, government and law enforcement are meeting to find the best ways to handle …
Read more on West Virginia Public Broadcasting