Cannabis Substitution: Marijuana Maintenance as Addiction Treatment

Cannabis Substitution: Marijuana Maintenance as Addiction Treatment – Our guest is Amanda Reiman, Ph. D. MSW of the UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare who will be discussing her research into the use of medical marijuana for …

A single dose of Ritalin may cure cocaine addiction

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Cocaine is a highly addictive stimulant drug, but ironically, new research suggests that another stimulant may actually help cure cocaine addiction. Just a single dose of … That's more than marijuana, heroin, and other stimulants and illicit drugs …
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The 'war on drugs' is over: Is addiction prevention, treatment the new call to …

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RETHINK IN LATIN AMERICA. Countries in Latin America, the world's top producer of cocaine and marijuana, have begun openly to challenge the 40-year orthodoxy of a U.S.-led "war on drugs" that sought to stamp out the cultivation and distribution of drugs.
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"Piers Morgan Live, Rewind": Legalizing marijuana and the Supreme Court's …

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Because those are both harmful,” he told Morgan. “We need to invest much more in treatment … right now doctors, physicians are not trained in addiction. And less than a third of our medical schools get two weeks of training on addiction, yet we're …
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