National Drug Facts Week: Do You Have Questions? Teens Do, Part 2
National Drug Facts Week: Do You Have Questions? Teens Do, Part 2 – Promotional Video: Howard County Recreation & Parks Voices for Change students and HC DrugFree’s Teen Advisory Council tell us their thoughts on drug abuse. …
Former offenders graduate Will County drug court
Former offenders graduate Will County drug court
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The judge said statistics show that offering drug abusers treatment and counseling helps to reduce recidivism rates. “The mission is to break the cycle of addiction,” Policandriotes said. She said addicts will do whatever it takes, such as stealing, to …
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Healthcare Reform Brings Expansion to Drug & Alcohol Treatment Industry
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Employment of substance abuse and behavioral disorder counselors is also projected to grow by 31 percent from 2012 to 2022, much faster than the average for all occupations, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The forecasted growth is good …
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Addiction specialists relieved over drug's rejection
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The statistics were just released from the Ohio Department of Health.” Wentz also had concerns about doctors prescribing the drug without enough information. “Physicians are in a very tough spot because they have to treat pain as an important vital …
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Get That Stuff out of the House: Mount Kisco Holds Drug Take Back Day
Get That Stuff out of the House: Mount Kisco Holds Drug Take Back Day
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Just as disturbing, are the alarmingly high rates of prescription drug abuse among teens. A National study, conducted last year by The Partnership at Drugfree.org and the MetLife Foundation, found that 49% of teens who misuse or abuse prescription …
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CKF kicks off public portion of campaign
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The Central Kansas Foundation for Alcohol and Chemical Dependency is nearly a million dollars closer to its goal to expand services to those with substance abuse disorders. During a press conference Thursday at CKF's Pathfinder Recovery Center, 1809 S.
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Bill Cirone: Warning Signs of Drug Use That All Parents Should Know
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Many parents worry about their children experimenting with drugs, but very few parents know the warning signs that could indicate a child is actually abusing or addicted to drugs. It is powerful and important … Dr. Leslie Adair, director of mental …
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Kings County will be the site of a new court-monitored drug treatment program …
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“There is nothing more heartening than to see a life transform from one involved with crime and related to addiction and to see crime, to see rehabilitation, to see people with the tools to move forward,” said Minister of Health Leo Glavine at the …
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A Growing Number of Americans: Drug Abuse Is a Health Issue, Not a Crime
A Growing Number of Americans: Drug Abuse Is a Health Issue, Not a Crime
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But back to this idea of preferring treatment for those who struggle with drug abuse as opposed to punishment. By reframing the issue as a health problem, Americans appear to finally be moving in the direction many other countries have been for quite …
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Opinion: Drug treatment in NJ breaks the cycle of crime, prison time
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On the one hand, it's great that so many of our leaders are interested in substance abuse treatment for inmates released from prison. On the other hand, it's at least as important to provide treatment to prisoners released from jail — and to addicts …
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Substance Abuse Treatment Facility Pays .25 Million In Healthcare Fraud …
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The Department of Justice announced last week that CRC Health Group, a nationwide provider of substance abuse and mental health treatment services, has agreed to pay $ 9.25 million to the United States government and the State of Tennessee to settle …
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Haslam receives petition asking for veto of bill criminalizing prenatal drug use
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The state Department of Health began requiring hospitals to report babies born with neonatal abstinence syndrome a year ago. The Safe Harbor Act took effect last year to give pregnant women priority access to addiction treatment and to protect their …
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Most Disgusting Affluenza Case
Most Disgusting Affluenza Case
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But a few days before the trial, in June 2008, Richards got a plea deal from the Delaware state prosecutor: admit to the abuse, and go down to fourth degree instead of second. Prosecutor Renee Hrivnak recommended probation, …. (One cannot help but be …
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Heroin overdose antidote promises fewer deaths but raises questions over who …
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About 20 people, most of them related to overdose victims or people who currently abuse heroin, crowded into a clinic in February in Camden, a drug-plagued city across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, to learn about the antidote. Jane Stiuv, whose …
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Updated: Former 'adoptive family of the year' mom facing multiple counts of abuse
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JAY – A Delaware County woman, who was once earned the title “adoptive family of the year,” was not a state-recognized foster parent, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Human Services said late Monday. Deidre Anne Matthews, 46, of Jay, …
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Spider monkey attacks among child abuse charges filed on Delaware County …
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JAY — A Delaware County woman was charged Friday with multiple counts of child abuse, including failure to seek medical attention for her teen daughters who were bitten several times by a monkey. Deidre Anne Matthews, 46, of Jay is charged in Delaware …
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Discussion on drug abuse in South Central Massachusetts scheduled for …
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On Tuesday morning at 10 at the Webster Town Hall, Senate President Pro Tempore Richard T. Moore, D-Uxbridge, will host a listening session on the extent of drug abuse in South Central Massachusetts, and efforts to prevent and combat addiction in local …
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Gene Determins If Aspirin Can Lower Colon Cancer Risk
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The research team included researchers from Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital, and University Hospitals Case Medical Center. “If you looked at the … In this …
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Public attitudes and policy toward drug addiction shift
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The Massachusetts Senate created a committee to address drug addiction and treatment, particularly the process of civil commitment. But experts say the …. A national Pew Research Center study conducted in February found similar results. “There is a …
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Device to Shock Disabled for Behavior May Be Banned
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Only one institution in the U.S., the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center in Canton, Massachusetts, is known to use an electrical stimulation device to administer shocks, according to a report released yesterday by the Food and Drug Administration in …
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