Rob After Addiction

Rob after addiction

Filed under: drug treatment news 2011

And those might have been snippets from Rob's life if it hadn't been interrupted by alcohol and drugs. But at 24, Rob's a recovering addict. After spending several days in detox, he sought treatment in July 2011 at Unity Chemical Dependency outpatient …
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Pain medication addiction reaching epidemic level

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In 2011, hydrocodone was the most prescribed drug in America, according to WebMD. At first, many in the medical community were not worried about drug addiction. If you give a pill to someone in pain, when the pain goes away they'll stop taking it …
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PropThink: Titan Files NDA on Probuphine; Partner Waits

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Various posters of the data have been presented at the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology in December 2009 (ACNP Poster-1), the International Society of Addiction Medicine in September 2011 (ISAM Poster-2), and the American Society of …
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Hatching Ideas, and Companies, by the Dozens at MIT

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Just a few of the products that have emerged from the Langer Lab are a small wafer that delivers a dose of chemotherapy used to treat brain cancer; sugar-sequencing tools that can be used to create new drugs like safer and more effective blood thinners …
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