The higher risk of drug abuse in individuals with mental illnesses highlights the relevance of the early evaluation and treatment of mental diseases as an effective strategy to prevent drug ...
It also leads the Food and Drug Administration, which regulates medications, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which tracks overdoses. Addiction care has made agonizingly slow ...
21, 2024 Amanda Vlakos had been living for years in rat-infested abandoned buildings in Baltimore, fighting an addiction to opioids, when she learned of a possible escape: a drug-treatment program ...