Showing posts with label heroin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label heroin. Show all posts
Saturday, March 25, 2017

Heroin in Vietnam: The True Story of the Robins Study

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Editor's note: The famous Robins study  on heroin use among Vietnam veterans  has been so often—and so recently—misinterpreted  th...
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Friday, October 25, 2013

Kratom: Mitragynine For Beginners

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An organic alternative to methadone? A disclaimer: Everything I know about kratom, I learned on the Internet and in science journals...
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Heroin in Vietnam: The Robins Study Reexamined

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How everything we knew about heroin was wrong. Editor's note: The famous Robins study on heroin use among Vietnam veterans has been so...
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Sunday, October 24, 2010

A New/Old Treatment for Opiate Addiction

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  Gov makes naltrexone legit for heroin. Last week, the government officially sanctioned the use of naltrexone, trade name Vivitrol, for u...
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Thursday, April 9, 2009

The Perils of Polydrug Abuse

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Methadone and benzodiazepines. For patients in opiate treatment programs, benzodiazepine use represents both a barrier to recovery and a pot...
Tuesday, October 9, 2007

OxyContin Back in Court

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Kentucky goes after makers of “hillbilly heroin” The attorney general for the state of Kentucky filed a lawsuit last week against Purdue P...
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Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Vaccinating Against Vices

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Developing a pill or a vaccine for a specific drug addiction has long been one of the tantalizing potential rewards of addiction research. N...