Drug Users 'Need Better Treatment'

Drug users 'need better treatment'

Filed under: drug treatment news 2011

"We know that between April 2011 and March 2012, prescribed drug treatment, including but not exclusively methadone, was less than one-fifth of treatment options started. We want to ensure our services in Scotland are as effective as we can make them.
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Number of young adults needing drug treatment falls 23% in a year

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Hayes also said the figures showed that record numbers of drug addicts in England were recovering from addiction with nearly 30,000 successfully completing their treatment in 2011/2012. He added that nearly one-third of users in the past seven years …
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UW Spinoff Resolve Therapeutics Snags .8M for Lupus Drug

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It's hard to diagnose, and very hard to treat with current drugs. Partly because of the lack of good therapies, and the huge potential market of 1.5 million estimatedpatients in the U.S., lupus has long been considered a big growth opportunity at Big …
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