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Chinese Doctors Experiment With Controversial Brain Surgery for Drug Addicts

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Traditional treatment for opiate addicts only achieves a 30 to 40 percent "cure" rate at best — 60 to 70 percent of addicts relapse. But with the surgery 47 percent of addicts (out of 60 patients who received the treatment) remained drug free five …
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Neecy: The Attitude Toward Relapse on the Streets

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This post is part of a collaborative narrative series composed of my writing and Chris Arnade's photos exploring issues of addiction, poverty and prostitution in Hunts Point, Bronx. For more on the series, look here. ————————- Neecy: Hunts …
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Drug deaths in county have been rising but nearly tripled in 2012

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Evans said one of the downsides of stricter regulation of “pill mills” in Ohio is that it led addicts to switch to less expensive heroin, which has become more potent in recent years. Prescription pill addicts frequently switch to heroin when they no …
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