Dr. Tomer Anbar Speaks on Chronic Pain and Prescription Drug Addiction
Dr. Tomer Anbar speaks on chronic pain and prescription drug addiction – Dr. Anbar was Founder and Director of the Multidisciplinary Pain Rehabilitation Program and Scripps Health in San Diego from 2008-2012. He currently heads th…
Emory seeks to patent cocaine addiction treatment
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"While treatment for substance abuse and dependence often focuses on combating the psychological aspects of addiction, patients in treatment also often receive prescription drugs to assist in their recovery in a variety of ways. Finding new treatments …
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Seminole to use federal money to help prescription drug abusers
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Those projects could qualify for the federal money the county gets to help low-income neighborhood, but the county plans to spend the $ 15,000 on treatment for 50 people who abuse prescription pills. That amounts to $ 300 a person, but the agency that …
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Prescription drug abuse hits newborn babies hard
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A baby suffering from the syndrome for opiate use has to be administered medications such as methadone, an opiate used to treat heroin addiction, and then slowly weaned off of the drug. Such treatment is not cheap. “This hits health care costs …
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