Reader Letter | Promote Recovery for Disease of Addiction

Reader letter | Promote recovery for disease of addiction

Filed under: Drug Abuse and Addiction Treatment

September is National Addiction Treatment and Recovery Month. While crimes associated with drug trafficking and drug abuse attract media attention, too little ink and video is devoted to the personal tragedies of addiction and the real and compelling …
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Few doctors know how to treat addiction. A new program aims to change that.

Filed under: Drug Abuse and Addiction Treatment

As dissimilar as they seem, many of these patients are also suffering from another illness — alcohol or drug abuse — that is at the root of the more obvious ailments that keep them cycling through the medical system. Even so, their addiction is …
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Drug Abuse Therapy Bears Fruits

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Tanzania: Drug Abuse Therapy Bears Fruits. By Abdulwakil Saiboko, 10 September 2012. Comment. DRUG addicts have hailed the power of methadone therapy in changing their lives and totally eliminating dependency on the lethal stuff. Speaking to the 'Daily …
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