Norfolk County veterans court graduating 5

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Five U.S. Army and Marine Corps veterans who saw action in Iraq and Afghanistan are graduating from the Veterans Treatment Court on Tuesday. Through the program — overseen by a judge — the veterans get counseling and substance abuse treatment …
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Target neurons 'to fight addiction'

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Studies in mice show that nicotine addiction can be traced to a single brain region called the interpeduncular nucleus. Neurons here “fire up” when someone is gasping for a cigarette, research suggests. Treatments aimed at reducing activity in the …
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Resistance to malaria drugs has spread in SE Asia

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Related. WASHINGTON (AP) — International experts raised the alarm Tuesday over the spread of drug-resistant malaria in several Southeast Asian countries, saying it endangers major global gains in fighting the mosquito-borne disease that kills more …
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Prescription Drug Deaths Rise With Opioid Sales

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BOSTON — Drug poisoning, primarily in the form of overdoses, has supplanted motor vehicle accidents as the leading cause of injury death in the United States. … For every death from an opioid overdose in the United States, there are an estimated 15 …
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