Serious Complications From Opioid Overuse in Hospitalized Patients Prompts

Serious Complications from Opioid Overuse in Hospitalized Patients Prompts

Filed under: Treating Cocaine Addiction

Pain-management specialists or pharmacists should review treatment plans and also track incidents involving opioids. Harnessing available technology also helps improve … These deaths now exceed fatalities due to heroin and cocaine combined. In 2008 …
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UK researcher developing overdose treatment

Filed under: Treating Cocaine Addiction

This new grant is the fourth in a series of investigator-initiated research project (R01) awards that Zhan has received from the NIH to continue to discover and develop a cocaine abuse therapy. In previous work, Zhan has developed unique computational …
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Circuit Court: Judge Chandler hears status of criminal cases

Filed under: Treating Cocaine Addiction

She was ordered to complete the long-term substance abuse treatment program while incarcerated and to pay restitution upon her release. She was given credit for 149 days of pretrial incarceration. Jana Drake, who is charged with theft of property over …
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