Legal High Deaths 'Tip of Iceberg', Says Doctor
Legal high deaths 'tip of iceberg', says doctor
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In total 43 people in the UK died after taking now-outlawed methcathinones in 2010, the National Programme on Substance Abuse Deaths said. This compared with five deaths in 2009, its report said. But Dr Owen Bowden-Jones, founder of the Club Drug …
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Rutland Searches For Provider To Manage Methadone Clinic
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Barbara Cimaglio is Deputy Health Commissioner and oversees of Vermont's Alcohol and Drug Abuse program. She says 400 patients is the goal "Because that is the need as we've identified it from looking at what is currently happening in the treatment …
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Reformulated opioids thwart misuse of the painkillers
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Prompted by appeals from physicians and officials at the Food and Drug Administration for a harder-to-abuse pill to ease what many see as a public health crisis, drugmaker Purdue Pharma in August 2010 launched a tamper-resistant form of its best …
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