Drug recovery a 'sink or swim' struggle for South Jersey addicts, families …

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… to cover detox services for heroin or opiate abuse. In-patient rehabilitation centers are also hard to find, and Thompson finds himself regularly sending clients to North Jersey or out of state entirely for clinical services. Finding in-patient …
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NIH study seeks to improve asthma therapy for African-Americans

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Washington, DC – Researchers will enroll around 500 African-American children and adults who have asthma in a multi-center clinical trial to assess how they react to therapies and to explore the role of genetics in determining the response to asthma …
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Eugene Robinson | We're losing this drug war

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WASHINGTON — Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman is yet another victim of the war on drugs. … Hoffman had lived through a familiar pattern: experimentation, addiction, rehab, abstinence, relapse, more rehab, more abstinence, another relapse.
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Telluride Clinic Sees Jump in Pot-Related ER Visits

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The spike in patients visiting the medical center due to over-consuming marijuana coincides with the recent opening of retail marijuana shops in Telluride, allowing anyone over 21 to purchase and consume the formerly illegal drug. Virtually every …
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