Segment Four: Hooked in the Suburbs

Segment Four: Hooked in the Suburbs – Separating creativity from substance abuse at Right Turn a drug and alcohol treatment program.

Tainted steroids found to cause spinal infections

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Doctors quickly reached a disturbing realization: An infection caused by black mold had infiltrated her spine, near where she had received an injection made by a Massachusetts pharmacy, and spread into the bone. It was not the … In a health alert …
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Lee Dorman Dead: Iron Butterfly Bassist Dies At 70

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The manager for Hemsley says the late star of the television sitcom “"The Jeffersons"” refused treatment for lung cancer in the weeks before he died of what a coroner says were complications from the disease on July 24, 2012. … target="_hplink">Andy …
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Ponatinib Could Herald “Revolution” in CML Treatment

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For the past six years, researchers have been working to develop a treatment for patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) who have become resistant to the groundbreaking drug imatinib and to the tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) dasatinib and …
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