A Different Path to Fighting Addiction
The center, known as the C.M.C., operates out of two floors of a 19th-century building on 30th Street and Fifth Avenue. It is part of a growing wing of addiction treatment that rejects the A.A. model of strict abstinence as the sole form of recovery … Read more on New York Times
Mutated Worms Could Be Good News For Alcoholics
"This is the first example of altering a human alcohol target to prevent intoxication in an animal," says corresponding author, Jon Pierce-Shimomura, assistant professor in the university's College of Natural Sciences and Waggoner Center for Alcohol … Read more on Huffington Post
Drug Series: Second chance in 'Section 35'
Mary D'Eramo of the Norwell Chapter of Learn to Cope, a peer-led support group for families dealing with addiction and recovery, explained that the law, often referred to simply as “Section 35,” is a civil commitment to treatment, not a criminal … Read more on Wicked Local Scituate
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