“Drug use accounts for between five to 10 percent of HIV infections, but it’s a growing concern in eastern North Carolina as the opioid epidemic continues … PiCASO staff members, with primary funding from the U.S. Centers for disease control, recently began testing people in Greene, Lenoir and Wayne …
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Because after all, it’s our local partners in community clinics, churches, law enforcement, schools, and state, local, and tribal governments who ultimately are going to turn the tide on this epidemic. They are fighting each day, face to face, with a drug crisis that is killing more than 175 Americans every day.
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(Reuters Health) – Being married, or ever having been married, comes with a much lower risk of developing dementia compared to being a lifelong bachelor or bachelorette, a new analysis of previous studies suggests. Researchers found that people who never married were 42 percent more likely than …
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The Dallas County District Attorney’s Office on Thursday confirmed Manziel successfully completed requirements of a court agreement that included taking an anger management course and participating in the NFL’s substance-abuse program. The case was dismissed Nov. 22. The 24-year-old Manziel …
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30, 2017 (HealthDay News) — The epidemic of opioid abuse in the United States has put hospital ERs on the front line, with staffers increasingly battling … Insights into how the opioid epidemic is playing out in the ER stem from a 12-year analysis that focused on more than 1,000 substance abuse …
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