Saving Lives With Overdose Prevention


 

Saving Lives with Overdose Prevention – Drug overdose is the #1 cause of accidental death in Massachusetts. Here’s how some extremely dedicated coalitions have been tackling ODs.

 

How Cops Became Soldiers: An Interview with Police Militarization Expert

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He was pushing policies like the no-knock raid, dehumanizing drug users and dealers, and sending federal agents to storm private homes on raids that were really more about headlines and photo-ops than diminishing the supply of illicit drugs. But for …
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Do You Have Back Pain? Hot Flashes? Big Pharma Hopes So!

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Recently some of the nation's top researchers, clinicians and scientists convened in Washington D.C. for the first annual Selling Sickness conference–examining how Pharma "sells" diseases to move the medications intended to treat them. … Why would …
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Child 'functionally cured' of HIV, say UMass, Johns Hopkins researchers

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Born to an HIV-infected mother, the child was treated with antiretroviral drugs beginning in the first 30 hours of her life, and doctors say despite being off HIV medication for 10 months she now shows no sign of infection and is "functionally cured …
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