Not All Bad on the Criminal Justice Front: Crime, Sentencing and Corrections …
... All Bad on the Criminal Justice Front: Crime, Sentencing and Corrections … At least six states implemented drug screening and rehabilitation planning programs, including newly required assessments and treatment plans upon intake for all prisoners in Vermont and West Virginia. These states also mandated better distribution of … Read more on Georgetown Public Policy Review Address overlooked starting gate to opioid dependence It is clear we are in the wake of a deadly prescription drug epidemic that is touching cities, rural counties and suburban neighborhoods across the country, including in our very own state of North Carolina, where unintentional poisoning deaths from … Read more on Durham Herald Sun Read ...
State Working Toward Immediate Access for Drug Abuse Treatment
... Working Toward Immediate Access For Drug Abuse Treatment VPR's Mitch Wertlieb spoke with Barbara Cimaglio, Deputy Health Commissioner of Alcohol & Drug Abuse. “About half the people who seek treatment are seeking treatment for opioid dependence. And we serve almost 10,000 clients per year. So that's grown … Read more on Vermont Public Radio Parity Laws Boost Drug Abuse Treatment For best viewing, click the bottom right corner for full screen. Rates of substance abuse treatment increased when states enacted so-called parity legislation barring insurers from limiting coverage of it more strictly than for other conditions … Read more on MedPage Today Read ...
Drs. Oz and Roizen: Testosterone Replacement, the News You Can Use
... started testosterone replacement therapy, they found that 25 per cent had not had their T levels measured to see if they really need the hormone supplement … Read more on Windsor Star (blog) Alkermes Plc (ALKS): Alkermes' CEO Presents at Credit Suisse 2013 Healthcare … It is an important medicine in a nascent market and a market that's coming together for the first time because historically in the U.S. alcohol dependence was treated with counseling not with medicine and opioid dependence has been treated with … Read more on Seeking Alpha Read ...
Medical Innovations Abound for the Treatment of Addiction
... Innovations Abound for the Treatment of Addiction Naltrexone, in the injectable form of Vivitrol, is a major medical advancement that has become one of the standards of care in the treatment of both opioid dependence and alcohol dependence. Naltrexone is an antagonist or “blocker” at the … resulting … Read more on The Pineapple Newspaper Detox: Cleansing body and soul That's when the aging process becomes too rapid or we start to get ill,” said Sally Halstead, Como Shambhala Estate's spa and programs manager. The word detox, she said, might be relatively new, but the practice has … There's no rule on how often one … Read more on Jakarta Post Read ...