Technology Innovations for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Treatment Conference

Technology Innovations for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Treatment Conference – On September 16, 2013, the top three challenge finalists of the “Behavioral Health Empowerment Challenge” were announced at the at the Technology Innovations…

Campaign begins to end prescription drug abuse

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Statistics reflect only part of what has become a human tragedy. “People are … His son, Michael, 20, addicted to painkillers and other prescription drugs from treatment for Crohn's disease, killed himself in 2011 in the family's North Buffalo home …
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Living well in an addicted society

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In April this year, the National Assembly of Wales published a report called Substance misuse and treatment services in Wales. It says that men … There were a total of 459 alcohol related deaths in Wales in 2011 according to the Office for National …
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Lessons About Traumatic Brain Injury

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Afterward, though, the treated flies show many of the same physical consequences as humans who sustain concussions or other TBIs, including temporary incapacitation, loss of coordination and activation of the innate immune response in the short term …
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