Prescription Drug Abuse: Stigma Often Keeps Abusers From Help – KATV …

Published May 5, 2013

Prescription drug abuse: Stigma often keeps abusers from help – KATV …

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FORT SMITH (Arkansas News Bureau) — Prescription drug abuse is a disease that can affect people of all walks of life, yet many people do not seek help because of the stigma and possible consequences associated with it. Those who work in the …
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Lightlake Therapeutics Inc. to Develop Opioid Drug Treatment in Collaboration …

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Lightlake is also applying its technology to develop a treatment for managing the complications of opioid drug addiction in collaboration with the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health. 1 Johnston, L. D., O …
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Weed in the Garden State

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In 2012, there were 12,437 treatment admissions for marijuana cases in New Jersey, including 627 in Mercer County, according to figures compiled by the state's Substance Abuse Monitoring System. That was 16 percent of all admissions for substance abuse …
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