Startup Offers Alcohol Rehab on Your Phone + Deadly Synthetic Heroin - The Doctor Weighs In
Patricia Salber, MD, MBA
Founder, CEO, Editor-in-Chief of The Doctor Weighs In, Inc., a leading online health & wellness information platform | LinkedIn Top Voices in Healthcare 2017 & 2018 | Thought leader, influencer, senior advisor, executive
DxRx Offers Rehab for Alcohol Abuse on Your Phone
It is estimated that one in ten people have a bad relationship with alcohol. Here's a digital health startup focused on helping people with excessive drinking and alcohol use disorder, the biggest drug problem in the world.
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Carfentanil is used by drug dealers to increase the potency of heroin, but it is 10,000 times more powerful than morphine, so only a few grains of the drug are considered a lethal dose for humans.
Two Words Can Soothe Patients Who Have Been Harmed: We’re Sorry
When a medical mistake causes serious harm, it is far better to apologize and compensate than deny and defend.
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6 年Or you could skip the tech/ pharm fad garbage and research LSD. It was used in the 50s (and worked) to cure Alcoholism.
Master Researcher & Patent (Oil/Gas/Bioethanol R&D & Technology)
6 年Thank you for sharing. I do believe regarding "self calibration". I read that a person is a worth more than $250,000 in price. The most expensive is brain treatment that worth more than $18 million. It is really helpful. GBU!
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