Prescription Addiction: Better Monitoring Can Reduce Medication Harm

Published August 6, 2013

Prescription addiction: Better monitoring can reduce medication harm

Filed under: drug abuse help centers

In this evolving epidemic, death rates from overdoses are rising much faster for women than they are for men, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports. … To alleviate this, health programs must take addiction to drugs that have …
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State suspends 16 Medi-Cal drug treatment centers

Filed under: drug abuse help centers

SACRAMENTO (AP) — State officials are temporarily suspending 16 California alcohol and drug treatment centers suspected of violating health care laws — from hiring people who were convicted of abusing patients to bilking Medi-Cal for services they …
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Argentina's 'slum priests' focus on helping rather than converting

Filed under: drug abuse help centers

A mural in one of Buenos Aires' shantytowns, where "slum priests" have worked for decades, combating poverty, drug addiction and homelessness. …. Olivero and the other priests opened a drug rehabilitation center and painted it with murals of Mugica.
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