Brooklyn, NY: Russian Immigrants Seek Culturally Appropriate Substance Abuse Treatment

Brooklyn, NY: Russian immigrants seek culturally appropriate substance abuse treatment – Personal stories of Russian speaking immigrants who initiated drug use in the United States

Meds a good "first step" for treating alcoholism

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Two drugs commonly used to treat alcoholism may be appropriate for people in different stages of recovery, a new analysis confirms – likely because they work differently in the brain. The drugs, acamprosate (marketed as …
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Study: Aspirin may help treat some colon cancers

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NEW YORK — Aspirin, one of the world's oldest and cheapest drugs, has shown remarkable promise in treating colon cancer in people with mutations in a gene that's thought to play a role in the disease. Among patients with the mutations, those who …
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