I was a breech birth ― feet first, my head got stuck in the birth canal. My father brought me to Children’s Hospital in Boston. The doctors diagnosed me with Cerebral Palsy. They told him that the loss of oxygen to my brain had destroyed a portion of the frontal lobe. But my father was […]

ConclusionsBuprenorphine + naloxone, used in combination with naltrexone, may be associated with reductions in cocaine use among people who meet DSM‐IV criteria for cocaine dependence and past or current opioid dependence or abuse. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. (Source: Addiction) MedWorm Sponsor Message: Directory of the best January Sales in the UK. Find […]

Conclusion: Management of HIV-infected, opioid-dependent patients with a clinic-based BUP strategy facilitates access to opioid agonist therapy and improves outcomes of substance abuse treatment. Primary Funding Source: Health Resources and Services Administration Special Projects of National Significance program. PMID: 20513828 [PubMed – in process] (Source: Annals of Internal Medicine)

Major Finding: Office-based buprenorphine/naloxone treatment was associated with a statistically significant decrease in participants reporting illegal activity, from 19% to 2%, and in interacting with the legal system, from 16% to 1%. (Source: Internal Medicine News)