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Online drug treatment can work

BALTIMORE -- Online drug-treatment programs can be just as effectiveas traditional in-person group counseling, at least in the short term,according to a new report by Johns Hopkins researchers.

The concept received high praise from former U.S. drug czar Gen.Barry McCaffrey, who was at an announcement Friday of the findings atBaltimore's Institute for Behavioral Resources, a partner in thestudy....

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