Lafayette addiction treatment center dispensing anti-overdose kits
Launched during California Prescription Drug Awareness Month, the program allows qualifying individuals throughout the county to obtain kits for free or for a donation from the center. With training, a family member or friend with an overdose kit or …
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Riding for recovery
Pulley checked into Louie's House, a long-term recovery residence for men and owned by Carol Lind Mooney, daughter of the founders of Willingway Hospital, the alcohol and drug treatment facility in Statesboro. “I had finally been … After completing …
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County Moves to Regulate E-Cigarettes
San Francisco supervisors are considering an ordinance and Los Angeles recently passed restrictions that treat vapes like traditional cigarettes. More than 100 cities and counties in the nation—including 40 in California alone—have passed similar …
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Why For-Profit Prisons House More Inmates Of Color
Beyond the historical over-representation of people of color in county jails and federal and state prisons, Petrella found, people of color "are further overrepresented in private prisons contracted by departments of correction in Arizona, California …
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Coalition leader recognized for advocacy, prescription drug initiatives
“In 2010, JP Banks was a key part of the initial task force on prescription drug abuse in Hall County that led to the adoption of the program by the Medical Association of Georgia Foundation,” Palmer said. “The Drug Free Coalition of Hall County has …
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The Last Drug Czar?
The White House budget for 2014 devotes 57 percent of drug-control spending to punishment and interdiction while just 43 percent went to treatment and prevention. Kerlikowske has noted such numbers increased … Some drug reformers speculate the White …
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Markey Calls For Expanded Treatment To Address Drug Abuse Crisis
Authorities blame the availability of relatively inexpensive heroin, the practice of mixing it with other drugs, and waiting lists at treatment centers for drug addiction. Markey said a chemical compound, know by the brand name Narcan, and used as an …
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Time running out to fix state's drug treatment 'crisis'
Drug and alcohol treatment centers across the state are looking to the legislature to fix a last minute, gaping hole as some of their most basic services for thousands of recovering addicts are on the chopping block. The KING 5 Investigators first …
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Women Who Sought Treatment for Drug Addiction at Caron Treatment Centers …
WERNERSVILLE, Pa., March 5, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Heroin and prescription drug addiction are on the rise among affluent women, reveals a new survey from Caron Treatment Centers, a leader and nationally recognized non-profit provider of …
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Reporter's Notebook: Governor hopeful Avellone focusing on drug–abuse crisis
He praised the center, which has a substance abuse treatment model, includes inpatient and outpatient services, and handles 22,000 annual client visits. The center has 30 beds in its detox unit for alcohol and opiate treatment, according to its website.
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Doctors continue fight against prescription drug abuse
Doctors are teaming up with treatment centers to combat addiction and drug overdose deaths in Jackson County. Health care practitioners are also recognizing that they have started many patients on the road to addiction by prescribing opioid pain …
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Massive rise in prisoner drug and alcohol treatment
Corrections Minister Anne Tolley says there has been a rise of almost 1500 per cent in places on drug and alcohol treatment programmes for prisoners since 2008. This financial year over 3,700 prisoners will have access to treatment for their addictions …
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Actor Matthew Perry to help raise funds for alcoholism and addiction treatment …
… Perry to help raise funds for alcoholism and addiction treatment in Houston. Since conquering his addictions to prescription drugs and alcohol, Matthew Perry has shared his struggles with the hope that they will promote the benefits of sobriety and …
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Lawmakers push for drug abuse treatment, recovery funding
ALBANY — A growing problem that's getting a lot of attention. We're talking … Between heroin and prescription drugs, the state association of alcoholism and substance abuse providers says more people die now from overdoses than motor vehicle crashes.
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