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Medication-assisted treatment uses one of several drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration to control cravings and reduce relapses. Despite the evidence, the approach is underused.
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Most inmates lose access to medication-assisted treatment for addiction once they're incarcerated. Among prisons and jails that do offer such treatment, it's often restricted to pregnant women.
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At the height of her addiction to heroin, Tracey Helton Mitchell lived in an alley and sold her body. Now she works as an addiction specialist helping others. Her new memoir is The Big Fix.
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Heroin use in King County is at epidemic levels. Government and public health officials say something needs to be done. So, they’re forming a task force.…
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There are two versions of this story.One is the story of how drug-abuse involving heroin has spiked upward, especially in young adults, over the past…
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How do you build a whole new industry – and undermine a black market -- without increasing its customer base? That’s the challenge state regulators are…
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Police and federal agents arrested 21 people Tuesday in raids in the Seattle area and northern California to bust a ring accused of illegally distributing…
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Not as many people are dying from prescription drug overdoses in Washington – but heroin abuse appears to be spiking higher. Those figures come from an…
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A rigorous analysis of data from studies conducted decades ago suggest that one dose of the hallucinogenic drug could help people stop drinking. It's the latest work to call for further research on therapeutic use of hallucinogens.
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You've probably heard the under-world of drug abuse has taken on a new face over the past decade, with the rise of prescription pill addicts.The story is…