It’s North America’s first legal supervised injection site. Over the past six years, it has seen 4 million people and had no deaths. The facility says it operates on a harm-reduction model, which means it strives to decrease the adverse health, social and economic consequences of drug use without requiring …
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Royal Bank of Canada is one of the few North American banks to have incorporated AI into capital-markets research, reshaping how analysts work and offering a signpost for where other firms are heading. RBC’s research group has six data scientists and specialists split between Toronto and New York …
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Alcohol and drug abuse among older adults is one of the fastest growing health problems facing the country. (Source: Healthy Living – The Huffington Post)MedWorm Message: Have you tried our new medical search engine? More powerful than before. Log on with your social media account. 100% free.
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The Australian government’s plan to see around 300,000 people quit smoking by 2020 has backfired.
A tobacco tax hike of a 12.5 percent over a four-year span has driven the price of cigarettes to $40 a pack and rising.
As a result, avid smokers are turning to illegally imported cigarettes to fuel their habit. The trend has resulted in the emergence of a flourishing black-market industry linked to
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Drug deaths draw the most notice, but more addicted people live than die. For them and their families, life can be a relentless cycle of worry, hope and chaos. (Source: NYT Health)
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