The hope behind two new hepatitis C drugs

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Hepatitis C is primarily a blood-borne infection, acquired through a contaminated blood transfusion, injection-drug use, contaminated tattoo ink or needles, or accidental needlestick exposures. More than half of those infected with hep C in the U.S …
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Right Step's Teen Addiction Treatment Program in Dallas Earns Tier-One …

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The staff at Right Step's adolescent drug rehab in Dallas has become Tier-One certified in collaborative problem-solving. This makes Right Step the nation's first residential addiction treatment center for teens to implement collaborative problem …
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"Dallas Buyers Club" is an Oscar worthy candidate

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Woodroof's prognosis sends him to the library in 1986, where he learns that the disease – then thought to be a plague only found in the gay population –was probably contracted through his drug use and unprotected sex. As he grapples with his future, …
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Jacquielynn Floyd: 'Drugs Are Not Cool'

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I don't get why that's the concern of a Metro columnist in Dallas. Maybe if she'd met the guy. Maybe if she herself battled heroin addiction. But Floyd's only connection to the topic seems to be that she knows someone who posted an insensitive Hoffman …
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