International Overdose Awareness Day: Fighting Stigma and Bringing Change
International Overdose Awareness Day occurs every Aug. 31 and is the largest global campaign to bring awareness to rising overdose rates. Combating this issue…
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University of Florida Researchers Investigate Chronic Opioid Use in Patients with Head and Neck Cancer
At a time when overdose deaths from prescription and non-prescription opioids have reached epidemic proportions, researchers at the University of Florida…
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Are you getting enough vitamin C?
Scurvy in the 21st century? Not quite, but researchers say most of us aren’t getting nearly enough vitamin C in our diets to ward off cancer, heart disease and…
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Some good news on opioid epidemic: Treatment options are expanding
William Greene, University of Florida and Lisa J. Merlo, University of Florida In the past two decades, the devastation associated with opioid addiction has…
