BACKGROUND This article highlights the experiences of a unique group. In January 2011, Dave Murray organized a group of participants from the North American Opiate Medication Initiative (NAOMI) heroin-assisted treatment clinical trials from 2005 to 2008 in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver (DTES), B.C., Canada. The NAOMI Patients Association (NPA) is an independent group that currently meets e...

BY AKT IN EXPLANTED VSMC FROM OLD RATS* Muyao Li, Jen-Fu Chiu, Brooke T. Mossman, Naomi K. Fukagawa From Departments of Medicine, Pathology, and Biochemistry, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT 05405 USA Running title: FOXO3a Regulation of MnSOD with Advancing Age Address Corresponding to: Naomi K. Fukagawa, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Medicine, 89 Beaumont Avenue, Given B...

BACKGROUND Opioid addiction is a chronic, relapsing disease and remains a major public health challenge. Despite important expansions of access to conventional treatments, there are still significant proportions of affected individuals who remain outside the reach of the current treatment system and who contribute disproportionately to health care and criminal justice costs as well as to public...