Drug Addiction Didn't Prevent Pickton Attack Victim From Testifying Years Later
Drug addiction didn't prevent Pickton attack victim from testifying years later
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VANCOUVER – A sex worker's heroin addiction that prompted prosecutors to effectively drop an attempted murder case against Robert Pickton in the late 1990s didn't prevent the woman from testifying five years later as the serial killer faced multiple …
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Pain and Pain Medication Abuse: Two Epidemics in Tension
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There, doctors learn to dread them — the patients who might be “drug-seekers,” or might be in real physical pain, or might be both. These are not entirely mutually exclusive diagnoses. Addiction is painful — it has even been likened to slavery.
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Zapping Memories of Drug Addiction Without Medication
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By Maia Szalavitz | @maiasz | April 12, 2012 | + Medications may not be needed to eliminate the drug-related memories that trigger relapse in addicts. Appropriately timed behavioral interventions may do the trick, according to new research published in …
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Battling addiction and depression
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This year the Food and Drug Administration approved the first drug for the treatment of social anxiety, the most common form of the disorder. However, a University of Pennsylvania clinic specializing in the causes and treatment of anxiety, …
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