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Police say man was emotional and “conversing with a tree” prior to arrest by petty cop
Goodlettsville Police charged 31-year-old Zackary Ryan Phillips with public intoxication after finding him “conversing with a tree” and
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Addiction Treatment: How Many Meds Does It Take to Get Sober?
Disclaimer: Consult a medical professional for medical advice. Stopping psychiatric drugs, especially abruptly, can be dangerous, as withdrawal
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Man on a three-day bender tells police, “You aren’t gonna see what’s in my blood, I took a lot of things”
25-year-old Hassan Algizawi was charged with DUI and implied consent when police found him unconscious and urine-soaked behind the wheel. He was
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Overdoses are on the rise. Is it time to provide medication assisted treatment in NC prisons?
By Hannah Critchfield The agency that runs North Carolina’s prisons has a Flickr account. It’s littered with pictures of contraband confiscated
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Nashville woman found with meth after being caught breaking into a man’s home and vehicle
36-year-old Kiale Swecker was charged with attempted aggravated burglary, burglary of a motor vehicle, possession of meth, and unlawful drug
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#224 Hospital Addiction Medicine with Melissa Weimer DO
What Every Hospitalist Should Know About Addiction Medicine Summary Jump into an episode dedicated to hospital based addiction medicine, as we cover
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Drug company abused the regulatory process to make medication assisted therapy unaffordable for many Americans
Today's Managing Health Care Costs Number is $1 billion Source: New England Journal of MedicineYesterday's New England Journal of Medicine
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Rebellion in EM 2019: Suboxone for Opioid Addiction via Salil Bhandari, MD
Background: The role of the ED physician in helping stop the opioid epidemic is three-fold: safe prescribing practices, beginning suboxone
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‘Sometimes it’s just pain, pain, pain’: Inside a rural Wisconsin doctor’s fight to manage opioid use
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#187 Buprenorphine Master Class: Managing Opioid Use Disorder for the Generalist
A Masterclass for Medication for Opioid Use Disorder How to initiate buprenorphine like a pro. Treating people with Opioid Use Disorder can be the
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Psychiatric Industry and Behavioral Centers Profit from Opioid Crisis
$1.4 Billion Suboxone Payout Raises Questions about Clinics Delivering the Drug By Jan Eastgate President, CCHR International Mental Health Industry
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Houses of God, and harm reduction
By Emily Davis On a recent Monday morning, a clean syringe and a bottle of naloxone got passed around the room at Grace United Methodist Church.
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Pharma company fined $1.4 billion for anticompetitive behavior around anti-addiction drug. That's not nearly enough!
Today's Managing Health Care Costs Number is $1.4 billion Source: Indivior annual reports. 2007-2014 data is in 2014 annual reportReckitt
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Bio Roundup: EASL Does It, Alnylam’s BFF, Gene Therapy Deals & More
A major conference devoted to liver disease kicked off with updates from the race for approval of the world’s first drug to treat a form of
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Bio Roundup: EASL Does It, Alnylam’s BFF, Gene Therapy Deals & More
A major conference devoted to liver disease kicked off with updates from the race for approval of the world’s first drug to treat a form of