Heroin and Painkiller Deaths Require Public Health Policies

Heroin and Painkiller Deaths Require Public Health Policies
We must also use the opening provided by the Affordable Care Act and the Mental Health Parity Law to create effective linkages between health care, harm reduction, and drug treatment programs, by making the provision of a wide range of substance abuse …
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How Medical Pot Is Helping Seniors Get Off (Prescription) Drugs
And very often, the side-effects from those medications are worse than the symptoms they're supposedly treating,” says Steve DeAngelo of the Harborside Health Center in Oakland, California. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has a monopoly on …
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Rutgers Scientists Identify Structure of Virus that Could Lead to Hepatitis C
Hepatitis C virus is a major global health problem with 160 million people infected throughout the world, about four times more individuals than those with HIV. Most of those infected do not show symptoms until the virus – the number one cause of liver …
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