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Mexico’s methamphetamine precursor chemical interventions: impacts on drug treatment admissions

Aims To help counter problems related to methamphetamine, Mexico has implemented interventions targeting pseudoephedrine and ephedrine, the precursor chemicals commonly used in the drug’s synthesis. This study examines whether the interventions impacted methamphetamine treatment admissions[mdash]an indicator of methamphetamine consequences.Design Quasi-experiment: autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA)-based intervention time[ndash]series analysis

Texas Raises Organ Donor Registry; D.C. Not Ready For Medical Marijuana Sales; L.A. Health Department Facing Major Service Cuts

The Houston Chronicle: “Though Texas has the nation’s lowest percentage of registered organ and tissue donors, several recent initiatives have more than doubled the state’s donor rolls this year.

New Screening System For Hepatitis C

A newly designed system of identifying molecules for treating hepatitis C should enable scientists to discover novel and effective therapies for the dangerous and difficult-to-cure disease of the liver, says Zhilei Chen, a Texas A&M University assistant professor of chemical engineering who helped develop the screening system…