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ABC News – Florida Detox – Dr. Sponaugle Rapid Detox for Drug Addiction Treatment


 

ABC News – Florida Detox – Dr. Sponaugle Rapid Detox for Drug Addiction Treatment – floridadetox.com – A woman who says she was addicted to Xanax and Methadone came to Tarpon Springs to detox. She says it was painless. Five months later she is still drug free. Deborah Wade says, “I’d take 100 milligrams of Methadone a day.” Deborah says she spent most of her life as an addict. Her love affair with pain killers and opiates started when she was seven after a doctor gave her pain meds after a surgery. “I can remember just absolutely begging for those shots, pain shots, and I was only seven.” She says she used heroin, spent twenty years on Methadone and most recently relied on 11 Xanax pills a day. She came to Doctor Rick Sponaugle, of Florida Detox, when all other treatments failed. Doctor Sponaugle has detoxed and treated more than 5000 people here at Helen Ellis Memorial Hospital. He says people come from all over the country. Debbie came from North Carolina. She was put under general anesthesia so she basically slept while her body went thorough accelerated detox under the doctor’s supervision. She says, “They put me under and when I got the tubes out from me I started walking the halls, going outside and smelling the roses, watching little lizards and I felt wonderful.” But the doctor says, in order to keep a patient from relapsing you have to treat the cause of the addiction. That’s where the brain scan comes in. Doctor Sponaugle says the cerebellum should be red. It should be more overactive than any other parts of your brain. But the doctor says

 

ArmaGen Technologies, Inc. Announces Million Series A Financing

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"I believe that ArmaGen has an ideal technology to help develop brain-penetrating recombinant proteins for the treatment of a broad range of rare diseases that affect the brain but also the periphery. If this works, doctors will have the potential to …
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Prescription Drug Abuse

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Minocqua – Drug abuse has become a growing problem across the country and perhaps the most concerning issue involved is prescription drugs. The misuse, dispersion and abuse of prescription drugs unfortunately often begins in a … Prevention Specialist …
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Of Plagues and Prisons: Two Films Everyone Should See

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Not that they get much coverage at the best of times, but you can add mass incarceration and the war on drugs (the interconnected subjects of The House I Live In) to the US drone strikes program, climate change and any other urgent, hugely important …
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