Using the ATTC/NIDA Blending Products to Affect Change – Part 3 – MIA-Step

Published April 16, 2013

Using the ATTC/NIDA Blending Products to Affect Change – Part 3 – MIA-Step – Christine Higgins, MA, Dissemination Specialist for the Mid-Atlantic Node of Clinical Trials Network provides an Introduction to MIA-Step (Motivational Inter…

A shortsighted 'cure' for prescription meds' abuse

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An Orange County pain specialist already in the spotlight over deaths from prescription medications has racked up another patient overdose death. The coroner has ruled that Wayne Oviatt died in January of a mix of prescription drugs, including morphine …
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Zakaria: US health care system has almost worst of all worlds

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All health care is not alike, but we treat it all like it's alike. … To fight obesity and drug addiction is not only a task for the government by providing educaton, also a task for parents. …. wages paid for fully by the govt , for the private …
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Prosecuting sexual assault: 'Raped all over again'

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Kate Smith (whose real name cannot be revealed for legal reasons) was extremely disturbed by similarities between the way Andrade was treated and her own experience, when she pressed charges against someone she claimed had abused her dozens of times as …
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