This Drug Could Make a Huge Dent in Heroin Addiction. So Why Isn't It Used More?

This drug could make a huge dent in heroin addiction. So why isn't it used more?

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Dr. Friedmann is a general internist, an addiction medicine physician and services researcher. He's been treating buprenorphine patients since 2003. Past president of the Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse (AMERSA), …
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Canadians charged with drug smuggling

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Watts has said the majority of the murders have been linked to drugs and crime, which is why the city has assembled a homicide task force that is scheduled to meet for the first time on Tuesday. “One of … She urged people who have family members …
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Study Finds Gene Network Associated With Alcohol Dependence

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"Eventually, it's our hope that the findings might help to develop drugs to treat or prevent this disorder." Han and his colleagues based their approach for identifying risk genes on the idea that genes may be "guilty by association" of contributing to …
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