'What can you do if an addict isn't ready to give up using drugs and alcohol?'

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DAVE: I assume you mean the ones that have ethically confronted the addict, with compassion, and explained they need help and standard addiction treatment has been rejected? I have real ethical concerns about the health practitioners dispensing drugs …
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Breaking the Addiction to Incarceration: Weekly Highlights (1/4/2013)

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… its officers the discretion to divert drug addicts and low-level dealers away from the criminal justice system to a program “designed to offer immediate help — a hot meal, a warm coat, a safe place to sleep — as well as longer-term services for …
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Your toddler's ear ache may not be an infection

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Two days later, back home in New York, our pediatrician said our son probably never had an ear infection, and that regardless, he should stop taking the drugs. At the time, I was exceptionally annoyed. What irked me wasn't just the misdiagnosis; it was …
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