Blood Pressure Drugs for the Wrong Reasons

Published November 23, 2012

Blood Pressure Drugs for the Wrong Reasons

Filed under: drug treatment news 2010

In fact, the study found that this kind of drug treatment not only does not reduce heart attacks, strokes, or overall deaths, but comes with dangerous 'side-effects' from loss of libido to sudden pain, urinary infections, asthma symptoms, insomnia …
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Lee County drug program helps offenders get treatment

Filed under: drug treatment news 2010

Thursday, Masters' life continued its creep back toward normalcy as he and 10 others graduated from Lee County's drug court, a program that seeks to reduce recidivism and crime by helping nonviolent drug offenders get treatment instead of sending them …
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Addicts Treat Own ODs in Controversial Drug Program

Filed under: drug treatment news 2010

Nearly half of the City's 4,821 rehab admissions in 2010 were opioid-related, and the Worcester Police Department responded to 94 overdose 911 calls in 2011. Opioid overdoses accounted for an estimated 29 deaths in Worcester in 2008. The Division of …
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