Born Addicted: Treating Drug-Dependent Babies

Published March 27, 2013

Born Addicted: Treating Drug-Dependent Babies – Hospitals in Florida and elsewhere are grappling with the latest fallout from the epidemic of prescription-drug abuse: babies born addicted to painkillers. T…

Addiction medicine discovered at prisons

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“The appropriate use is as a medicine … to ease a person who is addicted to opiates off of those opiates,” said Paul H. Coleman, the president and CEO of Maryhaven, a drug- and alcohol-addiction treatment center.“Obviously, if you're smuggling them …
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Cocaine Addiction Treatment? Changing Brain Loop Could Break the Drug Cycle

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"Understanding what happens molecularly to this brain region during long-term exposure to drugs might give us insight into how addiction occurs," said neuroscientist A.J. Robison of Michigan State University, who published the study in the Journal of …
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UN Report Slams Cruel Drug Treatment as "Torture"

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Compulsory "treatment" for drug addiction in some parts of the world is "tantamount to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment," according to report last month from the UN's special rapporteur on torture and other degrading treatments and …
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