Addictions Specialist Joins Promises Treatment Centers as Director of Young …
Addictions Specialist Joins Promises Treatment Centers as Director of Young …
Ms. Ogle has more than 25 years of clinical experience working with children, adolescents and adults in addiction, trauma and co-occurring mental health disorders in both a treatment center environment as well as in private practice. She is a licensed …
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Interventions to Reduce HIV Missing Some Drug Users
BOSTON — Clean-needle programs and opiate-substitution therapy have helped to reduce HIV infection in people who inject drugs, but barriers to such interventions are fueling a public health problem. "We have all the evidence" to reduce transmission …
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Program Allows Female Inmates to Raise Children Behind Bars
Program allows female inmates to raise children behind bars
Inmates who are accepted in the program, however, are not treated differently. Aside from living … ABC's “Nightline” followed inmate Jacqueline McDougall, who is raising her son Max at the facility in Bedford Hills, N.Y. McDougall was convicted for …
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Malaria – safe for now, but for how long?
4 March 2014 – Ten years ago, malaria testing was a job for lab technicians with microscopes, and treatment –mostly the increasingly ineffective chloroquine – was left to professionals. Today, the field looks … “We have a one-third reduction in …
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New Powerful Painkiller Zohydro Promises to Be a Frightening Street Drug …
New powerful painkiller Zohydro promises to be a frightening street drug …
A coalition of more than 40 health care, consumer and addiction treatment groups is urging the Food and Drug Administration to revoke approval of the prescription drug Zohydro. The hydrocodone-based drug is the latest in a long line of painkillers …
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Zac took 'sober coach' to Oscars
The 26-year-old actor – who spent some time in a rehabilitation facility early last year, allegedly because of an addiction to drugs, alcohol and the painkiller Oxycodone – made sure that he wasn't tempted at Sunday's glamorous ceremony by having …
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Young Actors Speak Out About Drug Abuse
Young actors speak out about drug abuse
Meanwhile, Desperate Housewives actor Shawn Pyfrom — best known for playing actress Marcia Cross' mischievous son Andrew Van De Kamp — admitted that he is an addict and has struggled with drug and alcohol abuse. Seemingly moved to speak out …
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Spreading awareness against drug abuse
Recent research shows that Dopamine is not just a chemical that transmits pleasure signals, but in fact, may be a master molecule of addiction. Several Dopamine genes have been linked to alcoholism and drug abuse. Dopamine is a key neurotransmitter in …
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Drugs and Alcohol?
Question by future_star02: drugs and alcohol?
I was just surfing the net for my project on ADOLESCENTS AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE and came across in various pages about headings like–“drug and alcohol abuse”.why is it that the term alcohol has been individually written rather than being considered as a type of drug only??is there a major difference between the two?
Best answer:
Answer by Cloverfield Monster
No. Alcohol is a drug, it is just more acceptable to use than crack or heroine. Caffeine is a drug too.
Answer by Queen of Wands
No not to me, alcohol is a drug…but it is a drug that is approved by the government…
County Joins Resolution Against Legalized Pot
County joins resolution against legalized pot
By getting signatures of governments throughout the state, the local MatForce coalition against drug abuse seeks to send a message that the initiative petition drive isn't welcome here. "We need to make ourselves a hard target for the Marijuana Policy …
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Tough love: Mom's pleas send daughter to jail
"Stefanie began finding new friends outside of her family life, and that's how she found the heroin," she said. Smith said she knows precisely who … Concerned for the safety of her granddaughter, Smith said she sought intervention from other agencies …
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