There are some addiction rehab centers that insist they can cure alcohol and drug addiction. Is this claim realistic? Can drug and/or alcohol addiction be permanently cured? Extensive research attributes addiction largely to changes in brain structure and function. Because these changes make it much harder for the addict to control substance use, health experts...
One woman dead and two others in critical condition in Venice, CA Emergency workers were called to a home in Venice Beach, California, early on Sunday morning, July 12, 2015, to find three people in cardiac arrest. Paramedics were able to restore the pulses of two of the people, but the third, a 44-year-old woman,...
The Ohio Department of Health recently released statistics showing that more than 700 people died from heroin overdose in 2012—a 60% increase over the previous year and clearly indicating a heroin epidemic in Ohio. Heroin killed more people in Cuyahoga County in 2013 than car accidents or homicides. A more recent report by the Ohio...
New drug buprenorphine helps opiate addicts. It is safe and effective and it is being more widely used but the problem is an increase in the accidental exposure of this drug to children. These kids are at serious risk for injury or death, according to researchers at the Utah Poison Control Center (UPCC), U School...
