Betty Ford Center: Addiction the Disease – Part 3

Betty Ford Center: Addiction the Disease – Part 3 – Dr. Harry Haroutunian, Betty Ford Center Physician Director, addresses the difference between choosing to drink and the disease concept of addiction and alcoholism.

Drug resistant TB a threat: SAIRR

Filed under: drug treatment news 2010

She said most patients who contracted MDR TB defaulted on their medication as it took about two years to treat. “Defaulting on MDR TB treatment can lead to extensively drug resistant tuberculosis.” Moloi said that in 2010, South Africa had a TB …
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Inquirer Editorial: Drug treatment too hard to get in New Jersey

Filed under: drug treatment news 2010

The need for treatment is sobering. Among drug abusers ages 17 to 25, admissions to treatment facilities for opiate addictions jumped from 72 in 2000 to 3,878 last year. There were 1,000 drug deaths in New Jersey last year, compared with 884 in 2010.
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Fallout from fungal meningitis mess: more drug shortages

Filed under: drug treatment news 2010

Together, the loss of the drugs may exacerbate ongoing shortages that have left hospitals scrambling since 2010 — or earlier. … The six drugs critical drugs affected by the Ameridose shut-down include sodium bicarbonate injections as well as …
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