CITA Biomedical to be Featured on National TV Show ``Healthy Solutions''.Business Editors BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 14, 2000 CITA CITA Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements CITA Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics CITA Center for Information Technology Accommodation (US; now the GSA IT Accommodation Division) Biomedical bi·o·med·i·cal adj. 1. Of or relating to biomedicine. 2. Of, relating to, or involving biological, medical, and physical sciences. Inc. (OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). BB:DTOX), a growing leader in the treatment of addiction dependency, today announced that it will be featured in the series "Healthy Solutions," hosted by Emmy Award-winning actress Mariette Hartley. The program will be aired a total of three times nationally. The episode is scheduled to air as paid programming on CNBC CNBC Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (artificial intelligence) CNBC Consumer News and Business Channel CNBC Congress of National Black Churches, Inc. , Saturday, Dec. 16, 1:30 p.m., and will rebroadcast on Bravo, Tuesday, Dec. 19, 7:30 a.m., and Thursday, Dec. 21 at 8:30 a.m. Additionally, the segment is available for viewing online at www.solutionstv.com/video_pages/639/index_cita.html. Now in its fourth season, the half-hour television program explores the most important issues and topics related to America's health and well being. The upcoming episode includes a special report titled, "New Hope for Heroin Addicts," which explores CITA's revolutionary new treatment that's helping to get heroin addicts back on track, announced Patty Elliot, Executive Producer of the series. As the program reports: "The use of opiate-based drugs, for escape from reality, has been a plague on society for centuries. Unfortunately, many of the victims of opiate opiate /opi·ate/ (o´pe-it) 1. any drug derived from opium. 2. hypnotic (2). o·pi·ate n. 1. dependency are seen as outlaws, instead of being viewed as patients. CITA Biomedical recently introduced a revolutionary process whereby people addicted to opiate-based drugs like heroin, narcotic narcotic, any of a number of substances that have a depressant effect on the nervous system. The chief narcotic drugs are opium, its constituents morphine and codeine, and the morphine derivative heroin. See also drug addiction and drug abuse. pain killers and methadone methadone (mĕth`ədōn', –dŏn'), synthetic narcotic similar in effect to morphine. Synthesized in Germany, it came into clinical use after World War II. It is sometimes used as an analgesic and to suppress the cough reflex. , can be detoxified not in days or weeks but in a matter of hours. Join us as we take a look at a process that's giving victims of opiate dependency new hope." "This treatment is going to make becoming drug free a reality for many that weren't able to do it before," said Jim Wilhelm, co-executive producer of the series. "Follow-up studies have shown that six months after treatment, more than 60% of patients sampled hadn't had a relapse." In addition to national broadcast on "Healthy Solutions," "New Hope for Heroin Addicts" will be reformatted and distributed via satellite as a Video News Release to over 750 domestic television stations. The "Healthy Solutions" viewer site, www.tvi.net, allows visitors to watch the program in its entirety, on-demand, and in full motion video after the program has aired. The series is produced and paid for by TV Interactive, a highly acclaimed independent producer of original programming and a pioneer in Web broadcasting. For more information on TVI, contact Lisa Baez - Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most Manager, 561/368-2300 ext. 3028. |
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