Jack Osbourne Drug Addiction Recovery – PROMIS

Jack Osbourne Drug Addiction Recovery – PROMIS – Jack Obscourne takes you to meet young recovering drug addicts. A story about how young people are addicts and how they and he got recovery. Visits 12-step treatment PROMIS in London. Uplifting hopeful.

Drug of Focus Is at Center of Suspensions

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Players are taking Adderall, a medication widely prescribed to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, whether they need it or not, and are failing drug tests because of it. And that … At least seven of the players suspended this year have …
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Are you the next Bradley Manning?

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One challenge in implementing the new standards is in how agencies treat and respect employees' civil liberties and privacy rights, which President Obama mentioned in his memo to carry out the policy. It is unclear how agencies will do that. … The …
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Alabama Voices: Nicholas Carlisle: Medicaid critical for HIV/AIDS

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In fact, lack of insurance and other obstacles to treatment and care in Alabama contribute to the nation's eighth highest death rate among those living with HIV/AIDS — nearly double the rates of many Northeastern, Midwestern and Pacific states …
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Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Mutation Thwarted By Ponatinib

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BCR-ABL is a tyrosine kinase, a type of protein that acts as an on-off switch by attaching a phosphate group to other proteins. Discovery of the drug imatinib (Gleevec) revolutionized treatment of CML. Now approximately 90 percent of patients survive …
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