Novick backs needle exchange as path to new Medicaid patients

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When Steve Novick walked across downtown Portland the other day to meet with the leaders of Outside In about their free needle exchange program for IV drug users, he wasn't just showing his liberal support for a hot-button issue. As usual, the newest …
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BC-MA–Massachusetts News Digest, MA

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BOSTON — A justice of the state's highest court has agreed to ask the full court to decide two cases in which prosecutors are challenging how lower courts handle thousands of drug convictions jeopardized by what they say was a chemist's misconduct …
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Who Wants to Save a Junkie?

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Across the country, recovery agencies and treatment centers have been making Narcan (also known by its generic name, naloxone) available to drug users' friends, families, counselors and even addicts themselves—giving them a chance to deliver a life …
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Berko recommends stocks

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It's believed that the Food and Drug Administration will approve RPTP's treatment of nephropathic cystinosis in the coming few months. – Verastem (VSTM-$ 9.85) is a biopharmaceutical company that focuses on developing drugs that target cancer stem cells …
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