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AIDS Drug Cocktail 'Extremely Effective' for Injectable Drug Users

August 6, 2008 5:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

By CQ Staff

Although some doctors assume otherwise, a cocktail of drugs to slow the development of AIDS works as well in infected individuals who are injectable drug users as in other people with HIV, the AIDS virus, the National Institutes of Health announced Wednesday.

The medical research agency noted that the cocktail has been "extremely effective" at slowing the progression of HIV infection to AIDS and at extending the lives and improving the quality of life of those with the virus.

Tags: AIDS, Journal of the American Medical Association, NIDA, NIH, Nora Volkow

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Five Questions for Dr. Nora Volkow: Putting Scientific Advancements Into Practice

June 16, 2008 7:06 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Dr. Nora Volkow is the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
NIDA recently sponsored a conference on an innovative concept called "Blending" - bringing laboratory researchers together with community-based counselors and physicians who work with drug addicts.

Q: What was the problem that "Blending" is designed to solve?

A: The problem that blending sought to address was actually a problem that is still prevalent in research on medicine. You can find these scientific advances and they are actually shown to have effectiveness or benefit to treating a condition, but they are not necessarily translated into practice.
We've (created) a forum to bring together scientists and those individuals who are out there in the trenches doing the day in and day out (treatment), to increase the likelihood that there is communication on both sides.

Tags: addiction, best practices, heroin, National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIDA, Volkow

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