Amendment dilutes terms for drug tests
Fiscal analysis showed that it could cost the state millions to implement such a drug testing program, with limited savings. It's unclear … And he said repeatedly that if the person is in a drug rehab program, he or she can continue to receive the …
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Doctors have reached limit on prescribing medication for heroin withdrawals
So many heroin and prescription painkiller addicts have entered rehab locally over the last several months that providers no longer can offer one popular kind of medication-assisted rehab. So Beacon … But cost isn't the only force behind the switch …
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States use Good Samaritan laws, Narcan, to fight drug overdoses
Chris Christie, left, and singer Jon Bon Jovi at a drug rehab program in Paterson, N.J. Bon Jovi, whose daughter survived an apparent heroin overdose in 2012, helped convince Christie to sign a â œGood Samaritanâ law shielding overdose victims and …
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Overdose of Baxter Springs man prompts new drug law in Kansas
Shortly before landing a job with Standard Transportation, Jordan told his family he needed to enter a drug rehab program and chose the Celebrate Recovery program at College Heights Christian Church in February 2012. He seemed determined to beat his …
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Bon Jovi 'Forced Richie Sambora Off Tour' In Bid To Keep It Drug Free?
At the urging of his wife, Dorothea, Bon Jovi wants to keep the tour free of booze and drugs”. The troubled guitarist, who has been to rehab twice before, is apparently not into sobriety right now. The source added “he told me that he didn't believe in …
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This has to be it for Marmol as Cubs closer
Gattis had a baseball scholarship at 17, but his mother took him to drug rehab instead. He was self-medicating his anxiety and depression. Gattis then traveled, hitchhiked, sought spiritual guidance from a wide array of gurus and eventually realized he …
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