TAMPA — At first the Jacksonville nurse denied the charges, but eventually, under police questioning, she admitted she'd stolen oxycodone from patient supplies. She was charged with trafficking. Less than four months later, a hospital near Panama City...
| By Alex Branch | Fort Worth Star-Telegram FORT WORTH - Fewer Texans with drug and alcohol addictions will be getting publicly financed help because of a $7 million decrease in funding to treatment centers, providers say. In Tarrant County, MentalHealth...
James Keller and Tamsyn Burgmann, The Canadian Press VANCOUVER - When police descended on Robert Pickton's farm in 2002 and began to unearth the remains of missing sex-trade workers, public attention was focused on the gritty streets many of the women had walked — the...
Anti-addiction drugs are known to affect appetite and reduce food cravings Treating obese patients with a combination of two anti-addiction drugs could be an effective way to help them lose weight, scientists have revealed. A group of obese trial patients lost up to six...
Dramatic effects were seen from a weight loss recipe that combines anti-addiction drugs with dieting and exercise. A group of obese trial patients put on the programme lost up to 6% of their bodyweight over the course of a year. The study authors said the improvements...
London, July 30 (ANI): A combo pill of two addiction drugs can help people lose weight, say US researchers. Naltrexone, commonly used to treat alcoholics and heroin addicts, and the anti-smoking drug bupropion led to greater weight loss than diet and exercise...
A study by a team of researchers at Bangor University has designed and tested two programs that help problem drinkers curb their alcohol abuse. The study shows positive results after drinkers have followed either the Alcohol Attention-Control Training Program or the...
