Treatment
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48 Million Americans Live With Addiction. Here’s How to Get Them Help That Works.
Raina Mcmahan, a 42-year-old recovery coach, spent roughly half her life seeking treatment for her own opioid use disorder. She tried detoxing multiple times at different inpatient facilities, but those programs usually discharged her after a week or ...
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Hepatitis C Kills 15,000 Americans a Year. That Number Should Be Zero.
A little over a decade ago, I watched my brother in-law Rick Boterf die of complications from infection with the hepatitis C virus that took his health, his vibrant energy and ultimately his life. A husband, father and practical joker, Rick designed ...
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Egypt Wiped Out Hepatitis C. Now It Is Trying to Help the Rest of Africa.
For seven years, Sulemana Musah put almost every bit of money that came his way into his war with hepatitis C. His student loans for graduate school, his salary from his job as a high school teacher and the cash he earned from a side gig selling yams ...
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Sickle-Cell Treatment Created With Gene Editing Wins U.K. Approval
The first treatment that relies on CRISPR is expected to receive U.S. approval next month. But it may cost millions of dollars per patient.
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F.D.A. Issues Warning Over Misuse of Ketamine
Unsupervised treatment — fueled by telemedicine prescriptions — for various psychiatric problems poses a number of health risks, the agency said.
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Teen Depression Rose Sharply During the Pandemic, but Treatment Didn’t Follow
The News Approximately 20 percent of adolescents had symptoms of major depressive disorder in 2021 — the first full calendar year of the pandemic — but less than half who needed treatment received it, according to a new study. The research ...
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It Takes a Lifetime to Survive Childhood Cancer
One night in 1981, in the middle of bath time, Marty Gonzalez noticed a strange glow that seemed to emanate from inside one of the eyes of her 9-month-old daughter, Marissa. “It was really bizarre,” Gonzalez recalls. “It looked like a cat’s eye ...
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A Novel Therapy, Using Writing, Shows Promise for PTSD
The News A comparatively quick treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder, in which a patient writes about traumatic experiences in five supervised 30-minute sessions, is as effective as the therapies most recommended by federal agencies ...
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Addiction Treatment Eludes More Than Half of Americans in Need
About 30 percent of Americans have been addicted to opioids or have a relative who has been, researchers also reported.
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The Hard-Drug Decriminalization Disaster
How soon is too soon to call a progressive and libertarian policy obsession a public policy fiasco? In the case of Oregon’s Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act, better known as Measure 110, the moment can’t come soon enough. In 2020, Oregon ...