Critics: LePage's 'War on Drugs' Approach to Addiction Misguided
Critics: LePage's 'War on Drugs' Approach to Addiction Misguided
But Dr. Mark Publicker, an addiction specialist with the Mercy Recovery Center in Westbrook, says the best way to show compassion for them is to get their mothers into treatment – preferably before pregnancy – on maintenance medications such as … Read more on MPBN News
Judge orders treatment for Texas teen who killed four in drunk driving crash
FORT WORTH — A Texas judge, who received national criticism for sentencing a wealthy Texas teenager to probation after he killed four people while driving drunk, ordered him on Wednesday to start rehabilitation for substance abuse and behavior … Read more on Bangor Daily News
How the golden age of medicine has come to an end
After being treated at two Indian hospitals, he was flown back to England where it was discovered, aside from the devastating injuries, that he had contracted five multi-drug resistant, gram-negative bacteria carrying the NDM-1 enzyme. Bacteria fall … Read more on Vancouver Sun
Weavers' villages in India suffer TB epidemic, exacerbated by poverty and …
Although the government has launched programs to combat the disease and offer free TB drugs, but there are serious nationwide roadblocks. Quacks with no training often treat TB patients, and pharmacists routinely give out antibiotics without prescriptions. Read more on The Province