Economics of Drug Abuse

Economics of Drug Abuse – October 23-31 is National Red Ribbon Week, an initiative by the National Family Partnership to raise awareness of the impact of drugs on our communities. Man…

What Philip Seymour Hoffman's death tells us about addiction

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His death, which came after a long period of sobriety that ended last year, “epitomizes the tragedy of drug addiction in our society,” said Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. “Here you have an extraordinarily talented …
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Early Promise for a Blood Thinner Without the Bleeding Risk

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Right now, anti-clotting drugs are given for a number of reasons. Doctors use them, for example, when surgery patients or critically ill newborns have to be hooked up to a heart-lung machine — a scenario, Renne noted, that would instantly cause blood …
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