Researcher foresees DNA data in treating addiction

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SAN ANGELO, Texas — Adron Harris can foresee an age when doctors will be able to tap a person's DNA to customize treatments for drug and alcohol addiction. Gene sequencing is becoming so increasingly affordable that the head of the Harris Lab at the …
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Drug–addicted babies bring competing approaches in proposed TN legislation

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Doctors and health advocates are pushing for the “Safe Harbor Act,” which would give pregnant women incentives to get into drug treatment programs — first by moving them to the front of the line for available spots, and then by guaranteeing newborns …
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Rockefeller backs drug treatment bill

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"I've heard from West Virginians who want treatment for themselves or their loved ones and can't get it – like the grandmother whose only option for her addicted grandson was incarceration. In the midst of such an overwhelming prescription drug abuse …
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Round table discussion focuses on prescription drug abuse

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Rahall decided to organize the roundtable after introducing the Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, the House companion measure to the Senate bill authored by Rockefeller. The bills would promote both physician and consumer …
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