Naltrexone, Anti-Addiction Medication Works, Rehab Assisted Recovery Midwest-How One Drinker Quit

Naltrexone, Anti-Addiction Medication Works, Rehab Assisted Recovery Midwest-How One Drinker Quit – Naltrexone, quit drinking cold turkey with the help of a pill. One former drinker talks about his experience. “Percy Menzies, St. Louis, Missouri-based Rehab & Recovery Center, Assisted Recovery Centers of America (ARCA Midwest) treats patients in an on-site hospital, then refers them to outside physicians for follow-up treatment along with therapy. A federally funded study known as COMBINE compared cognitive-behavioral therapy alone with therapy along with naltrexone. Patients receiving both were more likely to stay abstinent and drank less if they did relapse.” By Caleb Hellerman CNN Senior Medical Producer

St. Louis struggling with how to handle panhandlers

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The city says handling the panhandlers is a work in progress. Officials told us there will be an upcoming push for more public education telling people not to support a panhandler's alcohol or drug addiction. They also say there will be more enforcement.
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Friendly competition helps complete strangers at St. Mary's

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St. Louis (KSDK) – There's a bit of an experiment going on at St. Mary's Health Center that doesn't have anything to do with drug dosage or bed side manner. Let's just say it's more a matter of the heart. Alice Provaznik has been volunteering at St …
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Heroin use on the rise in suburban areas

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In fact, addiction experts from Washington University in St. Louis said in mid-July that reformulation of OxyContin in 2010, aimed at making it harder to crush and dissolve in water for a quick high, seems to have prompted many users to switch to heroin.
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