How Drug Abuse Affects Teenage Brain Development

Published December 19, 2012

How Drug Abuse Affects Teenage Brain Development – Dr. Annette Bosworth discusses how alcohol and drugs change the adolescent brain affecting mood and memory.

Oregon finds efforts to treat drug addicts paying off

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The program gives addicted parents residential treatment that allows them to stay with their children; it also provides intensive outpatient treatment, case management, peer mentoring and drug-free housing for parents and pregnant women. State …
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The rich are different

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In Britain, thanks to the National Health Service, there is little difference in treatment rates by income level for heart disease or in the receipt of stroke-prevention drugs. In America, however, access to health care for the uninsured is patchier …
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UNICEF Calls Out MPs For Defeating Generic Drugs Bill

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According to the same United Nations report, costs for the cheapest UN-recommended <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/18/hiv-aids-numbers-statistics-worldwide_n_1682936.html">antiretroviral therapy drugs</a> have also decreased over the …
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