Monthly Archives: October 2019

Prescription For Addiction

60 Minutes' Scott Pelley Reports On A New Addiction Treatment Word is spreading fast about a new therapy that is said to break the grip of drug addiction in a simple treatment. Addicts who have tried everything and remained hopelessly hooked say their drug cravings ended almost overnight. The therapy is called "Prometa." As correspondent Scott…
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An Anti-Addiction Pill?

June 25, 2006 by BENOIT DENIZET-LEWIS - New York Times Last month, the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was host to a conference about addiction for a small, invitation-only crowd of neuroscientists, clinicians and public policy makers. It was an unusual gathering. Addiction conferences are usually sober affairs,…
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Dr. Torrington on KCET

Click here to watch the program Rx Dangers: Panel Discussion In our story "Rx Dangers," we took a look at the epidemic of prescription drug abuse, which is now the leading cause of accidental death in the United States. Host Val Zavala, correspondent Michael Okwu, and drug addiction specialist Dr. Matt Torrington discuss the rise…
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