Know the Difference Between Addiction and Dependence

Know the difference between addiction and dependence – HCP and pain patient.

A centuries-old pattern in drug abuse by women

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During that early period, women frequently became addicted through self-medication, use of proprietary or “patent” medicines (until the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906) or with the collusion of physicians and pharmacists, who were overzealous, ignorant …
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Paul H. Robinson: Mandatory Minimums Worked; They Must Go

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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced this week that the Justice Department would significantly alter how nonviolent drug offenders are charged in order to circumvent mandatory minimum sentencing requirements. Some will support the … One recent …
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Path to N.J. children receiving medical marijuana eased

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John Wilson said other children with Dravet have benefited from a form high in a compound known as CBD and low in THC, the chemical that gets pot users high. Wilson said the drug can work not only to relieve pain or build up an appetite — two things …
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