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Health Officials Call for Better Access to Addiction Treatment

Health Officials Call for Better Access to Addiction Treatment
Expanded access to addiction treatment drugs and services should be part of national strategy to combat overdoses from opioid pain medications, according to a commentary by leading federal health officials in the New England Journal of Medicine. The …
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Highs sellers eager to return to sender
National Poisons Centre toxicologist Dr Leo Schep told Radio New Zealand psychiatric and addiction services needed to prepare for an influx of people dealing with legal-high withdrawal symptoms. Clinicians who dealt with people affected by synthetic …
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Medicaid rates pinch treatment centers
The federal government is now picking up the tab for most of Washington's publicly funded treatment of drug addiction, courtesy of President Barack Obama's health care law. … If the raise happens, it would presumably avert the threatened closure of …
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