Protecting our children

Published August 13, 2013

Protecting our children

Filed under: drug abuse help for families

Males are five times more likely to wind up in 5th Circuit Court for a substance abuse issue. The Kauai Family Guidance Center reported giving a primary diagnosis of substance abuse to 66 adolescents in 2010, and 64 in 2011. The center diagnosed a …
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Operation: Parent returns to help Oldham schools deal with students' social issues

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Also, Louisville's Our Lady of Peace — one of the country's largest private, nonprofit psychiatric hospitals — recently opened its first satellite office on Oldham County Schools' grounds, providing treatment to young people with substance abuse …
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Women Seek Help for Alcohol Abuse Sooner

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For this study, the researchers interviewed 274 men and 257 women, ages 18 to 70, in substance abuse treatment centers about their drinking histories. … More women (73 percent) reported having alcoholic parents, compared to 61 percent of men. And 58 …
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Berks County drop-box program helps keep medications out of the wrong hands

Filed under: drug abuse help for families

"I will drop them the box." Rudy said there has not been a problem with prescription drug abuse on the Penn State Berks campus, which has 2,700 students. He said he occasionally is contacted about someone whose prescription medicine, such as Adderall, …
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