Kentucky Drug Settlement Money to Fund Addiction Treatment

Kentucky Drug Settlement Money to Fund Addiction Treatment
The General Assembly passed legislation in recent years to combat prescription pill abuse, synthetic drugs and methamphetamine production. Heroin use also has been on the rise, and lawmakers are targeting that drug in the legislative session that … Read more on Pharmaceutical Processing

Citing medical records, See's family weighs lawsuit
Baffling in particular, she said, are medical records from See's treatment at Yale-New Haven Hospital just 10 hours before he died in jail, reportedly from acute methamphetamine intoxication. “He is oriented to person, place, and time. Vital signs are … Read more on Yale Daily News (blog)

Republicans Expect To Lose Fight Over Gay Marriage, Legal Marijuana
Americans of all stripes predict more states will allow same-sex marriage and recreational marijuana by the end of 2014, a HuffPost/YouGov poll finds, even though other surveys have shown Republicans still oppose permitting either. According to the new … Read more on Huffington Post

Where there's smoke, there's a desire to quit
"There are a range of behavioral and pharmacological treatments that all have been shown to be effective in helping people stop smoking," said Babor of the UConn medical school. "The largest challenge now from a public health … "There is now good … Read more on TheDay.com