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New Research Offers Rare Hope for Treating Methamphetamine Use Disorder
A U.S. government-funded study has provided evidence of a hopeful treatment for people struggling with methamphetamine use. People given a combination therapy of medications were more likely to avoid the drug and report improvements to their life than those given standard support and placebo, the study found. The findings are all the more encouraging because…
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US Health Officials’ New Plan To Fight The Opioid Crisis: Stop Chronic Pain Before It Starts
The opioid overdose reversal drug naloxone.Photo: Spencer Platt (Getty Images) Earlier this week, the US National Institutes of Health revealed its new plan to tackle the US opioid crisis, which it dubbed the Helping to End Addiction Long-term, or HEAL, initiative. Among the ideas presented are research programs devoted to better understanding chronic pain, developing new…
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US Congress Just Rejected Trump’s Plans To Slash The NIH Budget
In what feels like rare good news from Washington, on this week Congress struck a deal to boost funding to the National Institutes of Health by $US2 billion ($2.7 billion) over the next five months, effectively rejecting President Trump’s plan to slash the agency’s budget for the current fiscal year.
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We Were Wrong About Not Feeding Peanuts To Infants
For years, parents have been told to withhold peanut products from their children until the age of three. In a total flip-flop, the NIH has issued new guidelines recommending that babies be fed peanuts early in their lives to prevent the onset of dangerous allergies.