Some become psychotic when they quit using. Because of those withdrawals, these patients need proper medical monitoring.

We're getting a lot of people from South Louisiana.

Using prescription drug monitoring programs is an important step in identifying patients who may be improperly using prescription painkillers.

I have failed in finding parasites in mosquitoes fed on malaria patients, but perhaps I am not using the proper kind of mosquito.

Employees, medical staff, volunteers and visitors who use tobacco are not required to quit, but only refrain from using tobacco products while on the hospital campus. However, if people do want to quit we will have support programs in place to help them.

Patients go online and bring you articles from the medical journals. You have to go online to keep up with them.