Russell Brand Tells MPs Drug Addiction Should Be Treated as Illness

Russell Brand Tells MPs Drug Addiction Should Be Treated As Illness – Comedian Russell Brand has told MPs on the Home Affairs Select Committee addiction should be treated as an illness instead of a crime. The 36-year-old who said he had beaten a heroin addiction which saw him arrested a dozen times, blamed his drug problems on emotional and psychological difficulties. Society should not “discard people, write them off on methadone and leave them on the sidelines” and should exercise more “love and compassion”, he argued.

Aim is fewer drugs given to dementia patients

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The Tennessean (http://tnne.ws/T4yDR6 ) reported statistics collected by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services show about 30 percent of long-term nursing home residents in Tennessee are treated with antipsychotics drugs. The national average …
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DA's office admits letting slaying suspect avoid prison

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The Los Angeles County district attorney's office admitted Monday that its prosecutors erred in allowing a suspect — now accused in the killing of four people in Northridge — to receive drug treatment instead of prison time during a September court …
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Breaking Down a Biotech Winner

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Traditional cancer treatment options are little more than a crude mix of "slash, burn, and poison" – that is surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. There are radical new treatments in labs and trials all over the world that promise to … This is a …
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