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• Save Us from the Self-Appointed Experts on Addiction Treatment

  November 22nd, 2014 by Percy Menzies

  (Editor’s note: Percy Menzies, M. Pharm, is president of the Assisted Recovery Centers of America, a treatment program based in St. Louis, Missouri that treats patients affected by drugs and alcohol.)  Almost every week a new book appears in print on…

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• Health Officials Call for Better Access to Addiction Treatment

  April 25th, 2014 by Pat Anson, Editor

  Expanded access to addiction treatment drugs and services should be part of national strategy to combat overdoses from opioid pain medications, according to a commentary by leading federal health officials in the New England Journal of Medicine. The commentary calls…

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• New Addiction Treatment Drug Could Be Alternative to Suboxone

  July 28th, 2012 by Pat Anson, Editor

  A Swedish pharmaceutical company says it will soon seek approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for a new medication to treat opioid dependency. Two clinical trials have been completed on the drug, called OX219, and Orexo says it…

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• Join Together boosts drug-fighting efforts with Drugfree Org and BUSPH

  April 5th, 2011 by Richard Lee

  The Partnership at Drugfree.org, in cooperation with the Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH), announced this week that Join Together is now part of the 25-year-old nonprofit organization based in New York City. Join Together is a leader in…

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