Deaths Call for Independent Review
Deaths call for independent review
While we realize there is only so much that jail personnel can do to help those in need of treatment for a mental illness or for those dealing with drug and alcohol addictions, all prisoners must be treated humanely. If we're going to continue to house …
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Federal Government Signs Off On Study Using Marijuana To Treat Veterans' PTSD
The proposal from the University of Arizona was long ago cleared by the Food and Drug Administration, but researchers had been unable to purchase marijuana from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The agency's Mississippi research farm is the only …
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Maryland Heights Residents Fight Proposed Rehab Center
Maryland Heights residents fight proposed rehab center
(KSDK) – The fight is on in Maryland Heights to keep a psychiatric and substance abuse treatment facility from opening. That center has a … The former baseball star who famously battled drug addiction during his playing career is now an ordained …
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Drug and alcohol treatment can bring workers back to the job
To catch impaired workers on the worksite, the Construction Labour Relations Association (CLRA) of B.C. and the Bargaining Council of B.C. Building Trades Unions have developed the Construction Industry of B.C. Substance Abuse Testing and Treatment …
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Two Families, One Fate
Two families, one fate
That evening fell within a four-week stretch of sobriety for Jessica, whose parents had started drug testing her since she came clean to them about her prescription drug abuse earlier that year and, more recently, her dabbling with heroin. "And I …
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Program looks to rehab drug offenders in Calvert County
A county official is soliciting grants to secure funds to implement a program that would offer nonviolent offenders with drug or alcohol dependencies a chance at rehabilitation rather than incarceration. Circuit Court Administrator Emanuel Demedis …
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New Variety of Street Drugs Worries Police
New variety of street drugs worries police
Drug addiction can be financially devastating — some addicts have a habit that costs them $ 400 a day — and after they've exhausted their savings and sold everything of value they turn to crime, especially robbery, burglary and theft, to support their …
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Mother reunited with son after years in care
In a separate case, the Child and Family Agency also said it was concerned about a young child not attending school and her mother's drug addiction. … She said she would be happy to have supervision as the agency would be providing her with support.
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Drug Addiction Hotline Number (855) YES-REHAB
Drug Addiction Hotline Number (855) YES-REHAB – The Addiction Hotline was created to help Parents, Teens, Husbands and Wives, Friends or Family get help anytime day or night with one easy to use phone numb…
World Renowned Addiction Expert Johnny The Healer Offers A New Powerful …
Oftentimes “treatment” programs merely replace one addiction with another addiction to a different substance, never addressing the underlying cause of drug use. But a new proprietary system has been developed by a prominent drug treatment center called …
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Reece Jones Plays Video Games?!
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"Our struggles are not our identities…"
She also knows some people who need help but who either aren't willing to make the commitment required to beat the addiction, or who simply don't know where to turn for that support. "You have to … Patti didn't start out looking to become a drug addict.
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