Is Marijuana Still Taboo?

Published March 8, 2013

Is marijuana still taboo?

Filed under: drug treatment program statistics

He's an addiction psychiatrist at McLean Hospital's drug abuse treatment program. Is it still taboo? “Probably not … One of those statistics: In 2009, 28.5 million Americans ages 12 and older used marijuana at least once in the year prior to being …
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Parents seek aid for prescription drug addicts

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Federal data shows New York had the second highest number of people – 123,000 – behind California in addiction treatment facilities in 2011, the state officials point out. And New York had the highest percentage of opioid treatment programs, methadone …
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Agility Clinical Partners with PSR Orphan Drug Experts

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The number of rare diseases for which no treatment is currently available is estimated at approximately 6,800, according to the National Institute of Health (NIH). Nearly 30 million Americans, almost 1 in 10, are affected by a rare disease. Orphan …
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Physician liability: When an overdose brings a lawsuit

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In 2010, 38,329 people died of drug overdoses, up from 37,004 deaths in 2009, according to data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics. The numbers were published Feb. 20 in The Journal of … The …
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