Next Door but Invisible- the World of Homelessness and Drug Addiction

Next Door But Invisible- The World of Homelessness and Drug Addiction – *I don’t own this video. I’m uploading it in order to add captions to it since Overstream.net (and every other third party pulling from YouTube) is down .* Original here: www.youtube.com “Penn medical anthropologist Philippe Bourgois and UC grad student Jeff Schonberg study the lives of homeless heroin addicts in San Francisco. SAS Frontiers, September 2009 ”

Drug companies and doctors are starting to tackle pain as an ailment in its …

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Unfortunately for those wracked by chronic pain, drug companies – frustrated by the scientific difficulties – have switched their investments elsewhere. In recent years, they have focused less on the causes than on ways to prevent the abuse of …
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Meds a good 'first step' for treating alcoholism

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Two drugs commonly used to treat alcoholism may be appropriate for people in different stages of recovery, a new analysis confirms – likely because they work differently in the brain. The drugs, acamprosate (marketed as Campral) and naltrexone (ReVia …
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