Opioid abuse on rise
Increases in opioid prescriptions are fuelling the habits of drug abusers and addicting legitimate patients, experts say.
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A little pill that could cure alcoholism
When an alcoholic doctor began experimenting with Baclofen, he made what could be the medical breakthrough of the century The Hotel Lutetia is a beautiful belle époque building in Paris’s sixth arrondissement. It’s a place steeped in history: Josephine Baker was a resident, and it was here that General de Gaulle spent his wedding night. It was also here, on 26 January 2000, that Dr Olivier …
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Motivated by motherhood
Shannon Caseri was sitting in a Clark County jail cell for the 23rd time when she received a letter from the 12-year-old daughter she barely knew. “Mommy, please come home,” daughter Destiny wrote. “I’d rather you not love me than do drugs.”
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