Medications can help heroin addicts kick habit

Medications can help heroin addicts kick habit
Rural Bucyrus resident Lori Angel was one of many family members of people addicted to opiates present at the meeting that was organized by the Crawford County Opiate Task Force. “I came to learn more about the addiction and the effects on the family.
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Approaches You Don't Know About for Helping Someone With Substance Abuse
If you are a family member of someone with a substance problem, you have probably heard suggestions that include distancing yourself, using tough love or detaching until your loved one bottoms out and decides to change. You can turn on the TV and hear …
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Heed Massachusetts's cry for help in opioid regulation
Citing the same addiction risks, an FDA panel of expert advisers voted 11 to 2 in late 2012 against approval for Zohydro; more than two dozen state attorneys general also urged the FDA not to green-light the drug. But the agency plowed ahead, citing …
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Addiction – The Impact on Families — Louise C, who runs a successful business in Scotland, tells the story of how it took her husband, father and brother to get her in a car and drive her to a r…