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"War on Drugs": America's Second Lost War of the Last 50 Years

"War on Drugs": America's second lost war of the last 50 years

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One smoker, in an exclusive Honolulu high school, was future 44th President "Barry" Obama. Photo: Gilbert W. Arias, Seattle Post-Intelligencer / Seattle Post-Intelligencer Famed CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite. After 1968 trip… Continue reading

Drug Addiction: Experts Debate New Labels for Alcohol and Drug Addiction – Bend Bulletin

Experts debate new labels for alcohol and drug addiction – Bend Bulletin

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What’s in a name? That’s a question that experts are wrestling with as they prepare to revise the diagnostic manual that spells out the criteria for addiction and other substance-use problems. The catalyst for… Continue reading

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In the wake of OxyContin's demise

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Long-Term Opioid Use Questioned for Chronic Pain

Long-Term Opioid Use Questioned for Chronic Pain

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But that changed in 1996, when the American Academy of Pain Medicine and the American Pain Society — organizations that get substantial funding from drug companies — issued a joint statement endorsing the use of opioids to… Continue reading

Drug Addiction: Alarm Over Plan to Dock Benefits of Alcoholics and Addicts Who Reject Help – the Guardian

Alarm over plan to dock benefits of alcoholics and addicts who reject help – The Guardian

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Leading addiction charities have expressed deep concerns over government plans to cut the benefits of people suspected of suffering from alcoholism or drug addiction who refuse treatment for their condition.… Continue reading

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The Honolulu Star-Advertiser Kokua Line column

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We asked the Hawaii State Judiciary for the number of citations issued and the total in fines and fees collected statewide for the years 2008 through 2011, as an example: Calendar year 2008, 332583 citations, $ 37225730… Continue reading

Drug Addiction: Experts Debate New Labels for Alcohol, Drug Addiction – nola.com

Experts Debate New Labels for Alcohol, Drug Addiction – nola.com

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Special to The Washington Post. What’s in a name? That’s a question that experts are wrestling with as they prepare to revise the diagnostic manual that spells out the criteria for addiction and other substance-use problems.… Continue reading

Treatment Center for Veterans to Shut Down

Treatment center for veterans to shut down

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A unique in-patient treatment center in Allentown for veterans suffering from addiction and stress-related disorders that opened to great fanfare last year is shutting down. Veterans Sanctuary will transfer its remaining clients and suspend operations …
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Millennium Laboratories Sponsors Physician Education Programming at 31st

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"Urine drug testing, the most common medication monitoring method, helps physicians provide each patient with an appropriate treatment plan with a more complete medication profile to help prevent harmful drug-drug interactions in a patient's …… Continue reading

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University of Hawaii Cancer Center researchers create new anti-cancer drug

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HONOLULU- A team of University of Hawaii Cancer Center scientists led by James Turkson, Ph.D. have created a new type of anti-cancer drug named BP-1-102. The drug, which can be orally administered, targets… Continue reading