BBC News Philippines UK Helicopter Deploys Aid to Primary School
BBC News Philippines UK helicopter deploys aid to primary school —
Julia Roberts 'penned half-sister letters'
[rewrite]The Pretty Woman star's half-sibling Nancy Motes tragically passed away aged 37 earlier this month after what was reported to be a drug overdose. Nancy was thought to have been struggling with drug addiction and reports state she left a suicide note …[/rewrite]
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Chronicle AM–February 21, 2014
[rewrite]The committee will be looking specifically at state revenue and agricultural production levels as well as addiction rates and the availability of law enforcement resources. The bill is House Memorial 38. … Naloxone (Opioid Overdose Reversal Drug …[/rewrite]
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Heroin Epidemic Eclipses Prescription Drug Abuse in Front Royal
Heroin epidemic eclipses prescription drug abuse in Front Royal
[rewrite]Heroin replaced abuse of prescription pills as the most serious drug problem confronting law enforcement in Front Royal, according to figures from 2013 released by the office of Police Chief Norman Shiflett. Shiflett reported the Northwest Regional …[/rewrite]
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States use Good Samaritan laws, Narcan, to fight drug overdoses
[rewrite]Seventeen states and the District of Columbia have passed “Good Samaritan” laws that grant limited immunity to drug users who seek help for someone who has overdosed, according to the Trust for America's Health (TFAH), a nonpartisan research and …[/rewrite]
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Princeton House Behavioral Health Forms Treatments Based on Genes
Princeton House Behavioral Health forms treatments based on genes
[rewrite]PRINCETON — Officials at Princeton House Behavioral Health believe the key to successful treatment of psychological and addiction problems is in a patient's genes. A new program using genetic DNA testing at the center's outpatient site on Mount Lucas …[/rewrite]
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Drug-overdose deaths surging in R.I.
[rewrite]Laurie Ogilvie, left, supervisor of Forensic Toxicology; Chief Medical Examiner Christina Stanley, center; and Ewa King, assistant director of the R.I. Division of Laboratories are among those trying to combat a rising number of fatal drug overdoses in …[/rewrite]
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Meeting Targets Prescription Drug Abuse
Meeting targets prescription drug abuse
[rewrite]COLUMBUS — Polk County community leaders will come together today to discuss the growing problem of prescription drug abuse, addiction to pain medication and unintentional drug overdose. The dinner meeting will take place starting at 5:30 p.m. at the …[/rewrite]
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Vt. drug–abuse film goes national
[rewrite]RUTLAND — Vermont filmmaker Bess O'Brien figured she was finished with her drug-abuse documentary “The Hungry Heart” after its Green Mountain premiere last fall. Then Gov. … People can relate to human stories — they hit you in a way statistics don't.”[/rewrite]
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Partnership Models Structure R&D Change
Partnership Models Structure R&D Change
[rewrite]Pfizer's Global Centers for Therapeutic Innovation was established in 2010 to pair teams of researchers from academic medical centers with company scientists. Researchers gain access to Pfizer's library of drug candidates and work side by side with …[/rewrite]
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Expert Panel to Brief Congress on Innovative Models for Advancing …
[rewrite]10, 2014 — /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation will host a briefing on Capitol Hill to highlight how care delivery and drug development models in cystic fibrosis are an example for health policy experts seeking new ways to treat …[/rewrite]
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What Is Drug Addiction, Effects and Treatment? More Particularly in the Philippines?
Question by Patrick S: what is drug addiction, effects and treatment? more particularly in the philippines?
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Answer by Cliff Schaffer
The answer to that question could fill libraries.
Start by reading this book: http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/studies/cu/cumenu.htm
It is probably the best overall review of the subject ever written.
The Philippines is basically in the dark ages with respect to drugs. Mindless policies and police corruption are the rule, rather than the exception. You can find a lot of news articles on the subject by searching at http://www.mapinc.org
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