No. Scientists cannot block addiction now. But you wouldn't know it from this release put out by the University of Adelaide:
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No. Scientists cannot block addiction now. But you wouldn't know it from this release put out by the University of Adelaide:
Scientists can now block heroin, morphine addicition
In a major breakthrough, an international team of scientists has proven that addiction to morphine and heroin can be blocked, while at the same time increasing pain relief.
If I were addicted to heroin, I guess I'd toddle off to Australia to get my addiction blocked now.
Further along in the release, the researchers from Adelaide and the University of Colorado say that clincial trials "may be possible within the next 18 months." The release does not note that according to...
Scanning through today's messages on the listserv of the Association of Health Care Journalists, I found an email that demanded that I drop everything and race to the Tracker dashboard to post it.
In response to a query from Tina Tsomaia, an AHCJ member in Tbilisi, Georgia, Maia Szalavitz,...
Scanning through today's messages on the listserv of the Association of Health Care Journalists, I found an email that demanded that I drop everything and race to the Tracker dashboard to post it.
In response to a query from Tina Tsomaia, an AHCJ member in Tbilisi, Georgia, Maia Szalavitz, also an AHCJ member, erupted with a set of bullet points on covering addiction that include some of the best and most concise reporting tips I've seen anywhere.
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