Addiction to Opiates: Drug Forum Looks at Problems, Solutions

Drug forum looks at problems, solutions
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Tim Sexton, director of the Lawrence Drug and Major Crime Task Force, said in his 30 years of law enforcement, he has never seen a drug problem as pervasive as opiate pain pill addiction. Sexton, with help from the OUS media center, produced an …
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Study: Heroin, morphine addictions can be blocked
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By targeting a certain type of pain-receptor cell that amplifies drug cravings the team is confident it has found a mechanism in the human immune system that will eventually lead to more effective therapies for treating addictions to opiates. “We are …
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Garrett Reid's death highlights the difficulty of dealing with addiction
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"We're in the middle of a prescription-opiate epidemic right now," said Kyle Kampman, medical director at the Charles O'Brien Center for Addiction Treatment, at the University of Pennsylvania Health System. Relatively new medicines, like Vivitrol — a …
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