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OPICAN study in seven Canadian cities reveals prescription opioid abuse more prevalent than heroin
11-20-2006 · EurekAlert!A new study conducted in seven Canadian cities reveals that prescription opioids, and not heroin, are the major form of illicit opioid use. These findings raise questions about the current focus of Canada's drug control policy and treatment programs.
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- OPICAN study in 7 Canadian cities reveals prescription opioid abuse more prevalent than heroin
11-20-2006 · EurekAlert!
A new study conducted in seven Canadian cities reveals that prescription opioids, and not heroin, are the major form of illicit opioid use. These findings raise questions about the current focus of Canada's drug control policy and treatment programs.
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- Prescription opioids the predominant choice among illicit opioid users
11-20-2006 · EurekAlert!
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- Study reveals clean air challenge for major Asian cities
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Hundreds of millions of city dwellers breathe air so polluted with chemicals, smoke and particles that it dramatically exceeds World Health Organization limits with major impacts on health and the environment.
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- Landmark Carnegie Mellon addiction study finds people underestimate power of drug cravings
02-12-2007 · EurekAlert!
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- Where consumer culture doesn't quite reach
05-10-2007 · EurekAlert!
In the June issue of the Journal of Consumer Research, a important study by Tuba Üstüner (City University, London) and Douglas B. Holt (University of Oxford) explores how consumer culture is enacted in ramshackle neighborhoods on the peripheries of global cities. More than one billion people -- about 1/6 of the world’s total population -- live in these often illegal squatter neighborhoods on the outskirts of mega-cities in the developing world.
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- New plant study reveals a 'deeply hidden' layer of the transcriptome
12-27-2007 · EurekAlert!
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- Study explores distinction between 'different' and 'uncool'
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- NIDA research reveals subconscious signals can trigger drug craving
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- America may learn from Quebec's prescription drug plan
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A new study published in the Milbank Quarterly finds a number of similarities between Canadian drug coverage and that of the United States, despite their publicized differences. Looking at Quebec's Prescription Drug Insurance Program and the United States' Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act (MMA), the study suggests that the older Canadian plan may provide valuable insights for American decisionmakers.
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