A Sobering Story: Addicts Must Confront Their Demons, Experts Say

Published April 13, 2014

A Sobering Story: Addicts must confront their demons, experts say
However, addiction is not a moral failing, and brain-imaging techniques have helped to show that, according to Ruben Baler, a health science administrator with the National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the National Institutes of Health. “From the …
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Science|Surge in Prescriptions for Opioid Painkillers for Pregnant Women
Of 1.1 million pregnant women enrolled in Medicaid nationally, nearly 23 percent filled an opioid prescription in 2007, up from 18.5 percent in 2000, according to a study published last week in Obstetrics and Gynecology, the largest to date of opioid …
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Prescriptions for R.I.'s addiction crisis
Rhode Island ranks among the highest in the country in illicit drug use, non-illicit drug use, non-medical use of prescription pain relievers, and per-capita overdose deaths. More than 70 Rhode Islanders have died of … Massachusetts placed nurse care …
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