Interview With Nora Volkow, NIDA

Interview with Nora Volkow, NIDA – Interview with Nora Volkow, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, who gave a plenary talk at the 6th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention (www.ias2011.org) entitled, Ending HIV transmission among drug users by 2015, available at http

Side Effects | A Journal Sentinel Watchdog Update FDA to weigh tighter rules …

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Wilson Compton, a physician and division director at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, said there is not good data showing that hydrocodone products are less addictive than oxycodone products. Compton said the institute has not taken a stance on …
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UK Center for Drug Abuse Research Translation receives million NIH grant

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3, 2013) — The University of Kentucky Center for Drug Abuse Research Translation (CDART) has received a $ 7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health or NIH, funding that will continue the center's long history of developing novel …
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Alabama news from The Associated Press

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(AP) — The Jefferson County Coroner says 57 people died because of heroin overdoses in 2012 and the figure is nearly double the number of people who died after overdosing on the drug in 2011. The coroner says heroin was also listed as a contributing …
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