Year in Review No. 5: A Death in the Shambhala Family
Year in Review No. 5: A death in the Shambhala family
Filed under: drug treatment news 2012
Part of the Star's look back at the top stories of 2012. Tragedy struck at Shambhala this year when a young … He was in trouble with the law a few years ago for drug possession and underwent treatment. On Facebook, his friend Kristy King remembered …
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Weighing the hepatitis C risk for baby boomers
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Paul O'Hara (pictured in his Jamaica Plain home) underwent a grueling 11-month treatment for hepatitis C that included the drug Incivek. Treatment caused gastrointestinal trouble and paranoia. He lost 20 pounds of muscle, he said, but today the virus …
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Dangers of 'Whoonga': Abuse Of AIDS Drugs Stokes Resistance
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People with HIV who smoke so-called whoonga — an illicit concoction of an AIDS medication and a street drug, like marijuana or heroin — can develop mutant strains of the virus resistant to the medication. So when they need treatment, it doesn't work.
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'Bubble Boy' Bill Passes Congress
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"There's nothing more disconcerting for a physician than to have a treatment that's effective for a patient, and then we can't get it to them." The existing law had what the Immune Deficiency Foundation called a "quirk": It paid for the infusion drugs …
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