Study Shows Pill Prevents HIV Among Drug Addicts
Drug-injecting addicts who took a daily antiretroviral pill were half as likely to become infected with H.I.V. as those who did not, a major new study has found, providing the final piece of evidence that such treatments can prevent AIDS in every group …
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Drug War Blocking Potential Treatments for Cancer, Alzheimer's, Journal Claims
In the U.S., the drug can only be legally obtained for study from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and requires a special review and FDA-approved protocols that are not needed to study legal drugs or most experimental compounds. In the U.K …
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Alcohol advertising: in the eye of the beer-holder
It was written by Charles Parry, director of the alcohol and drug abuse research unit at the Medical Research Council and an extraordinary professor in the department of psychiatry at Stellenbosch University; Nadine Harker Burnhams, a senior scientist …
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