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DALLAS, July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- The Way Out Recovery today announced the general availability of their free placement and referral services through the launch of their website, www.TheWayOutRecovery.com. This serves as a significant resource to anyone looking to find drug and alcohol treatment for themselves or a loved one. The company is dedicated to helping people find substance abuse and treatment facilities that will address their needs and help them reclaim their lives. According to...

Policy resistance to harm reduction for drug users and potential effect of changeStrict laws on the criminalisation of drug use and drug users are fuelling the spread of HIV and other serious harms associated with the criminal market and should be reviewed, say experts in a series of articles published on bmj.com today to coincide with the 18th International AIDS Conference in Vienna, 18-23 July 2010.Countries most affected include Russia and Ukraine, which operate strict drug laws and remain...

CHICAGO, July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- A new study by Roosevelt University's Illinois Consortium on Drug Policy shows deaths from heroin overdoses in Chicago's Cook County fell 16 percent during the last decade, but the Chicago metropolitan region still ranks among the worst in the nation for heroin use. Kimberly Dennis, M.D., eating disorder specialist at Chicago's Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center, sees the use of heroin regularly from women and girls she treats and knows the...

A UN report said Wednesday that drug use is moving away from cocaine and opiates and growing towards synthetic drugs. "The world's supply of the two main problem drugs -- opiates and cocaine -- keeps declining," the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) found in its 2010 World Drug Report presented Wednesday.It noted that the land used for opium cultivation in the last two years has shrunk by 23 percent.  Coca cultivation has dropped by 28 percent in the last decade....

Analysis: Safer out of hours primary careOnly doctors familiar with local health services should provide out of hours primary care, argue two experts, following the death of a patient given an overdose of diamorphine by an out of hours doctor.This is just one of several wide ranging changes needed to ensure the quality and safety of out of hours care, say Dr Paul Cosford and Dr Justyn Thomas from NHS East of England in a paper published on bmj.com today.David Gray died after he was wrongly...

BRONX, New York, June 7 /PRNewswire/ -- The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) today launches a new, nationwide campaign encouraging teens to engage in a conversation about the positive and negative pressures that influence their decisions. The Influence Project is part of a new emphasis on teens who are central to the anti-drug teen brand, Above the Influence. This emphasis includes hearing directly from teens about what they do to resist drug use and stay "above"...

British researchers said Friday that prescribing heroin to addicts who cannot kick the habit helps them stay off street drugs. Doctors have had little success in treating the 10 percent or more of heroin users who do not respond to methadone, which is a standard medication to fight the addiction. Users often spiral downward into crime and disease spread by dirty needles and unhealthy living. Heroin clinics can at least help addicts get off the street."What we are dealing with here is a...

MONTGOMERY, Ala., May 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Beasley Allen has filed a class action lawsuit in Circuit Court of Montgomery, Alabama, on behalf of a local woman, individually and as a class representative against Defendants Colonial Management Group, L.P.; Colonial GP, L.P.; and Montgomery Liquidating Professional Corporation d/b/a Montgomery Metro Treatment Center; and Gilberto Sanchez, M.D. The lawsuit alleges the Defendants operated "Methadone Clinics" that promised to treat addictions to...

McCAFFREY ALSO TUES., MAY 25 NOON--RIBBON CUTTING -OPENING NEW CANYON PARK TREATMENT SOLUTIONS, 22026 20(TH) AVE. SE, BOTHELL WA 98021, Suite 101 Facilities Confront "The New Heroin", Will Announce 96% Successful Stop of Opiate Abuse within 30 Days Treatment TACOMA, Wash. and BOTHELL, Wash., May 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Four-Star General and former U.S. Drug Czar Barry McCaffrey will be the featured speaker at Tacoma Treatment Solutions' five-year anniversary celebration, Monday, May...

Washington, DC "“ To their surprise, researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) have discovered that morphine (a derivate of the opium poppy that is similar to heroin) protects rat neurons against HIV toxicity - a finding they say might help in the design of new neuroprotective therapies for patients with the infection.The discovery, being presented at the annual meeting of the Society of NeuroImmune Pharmacology, also helps explain why a subset of people who are heroin...