Building a healthier society , one needle at a time

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Canada's first national drug strategy was introduced in 1987 and featured a working policy framework for prevention, treatment and reduction of the harms associated with substance use. By 1998, with evidence that needle exchange programs in several …
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FDA Approves US Product Labeling Update for Sprycel(R) (dasatinib) to Include …

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Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) and Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an update to the Sprycel (dasatinib) product labeling. … "Bristol-Myers Squibb remains …
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Opinion: Taking back New Jersey from grip of heroin crisis

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Heroin accounted for more than one-third of the number of substance abuse treatments in New Jersey last year, even more than alcohol, according to the Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality. Nearly half of all treatments for substance …
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Forced marijuana treatment: an economic boon for the addiction industry?

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Under the guise of “treatment,” what they were doing was working on creating statistics that would support a HUGE money grab for more services and create a story of crisis that doesn't really exist! … Is rehab roll-up-able? In the most basic sense …
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