Research Links Severe Mental Illness And Substance Use
… in psychiatry and addiction issues. The Washington University School of Medicine St. Louis and the University of Southern California jointly conducted a study of nearly 20,000 individuals, 9,142 of which were diagnosed with severe psychotic …
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Alcohol Justice To Bring REEL Recovery Film Festival To San Francisco Bay …
The four-day festival will present select feature-length and short, fictional and factual alcohol and drug addiction themed films that highlight the disease as well as the hope and opportunity for recovery. There will be expert panel discussions …
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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford says city “booming” despite record unemployment
Ford hopes that he will be able to use the intervening eight months to push to the background last year's sordid spectacle of drug and alcohol abuse, criminal associations, habitual lying and outright buffoonery that saw him stripped of much of his …
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Where There's Smoke . . .
“I can't really speak to why guys smoke, but I'm from Southern California, so it's all around where we grew up,” says Broncos safety Omar Bolden, 25, of Ontario, Calif. “You walk outside and it smells like … Despite some of the harshest penalties in …
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Drug charges dropped for Calif. treasurer's wife
Drug and child endangerment charges were dismissed Friday against state Treasurer Bill Lockyer's wife, who was arrested on suspicion of being high on methamphetamine and keeping drugs in a Southern California home she shared with her 9-year-old son. A …
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Medi-Cal agency to overhaul drug rehab program after critical audit
California's Medi-Cal agency is launching an overhaul of its drug rehabilitation program in light of a damning internal audit that spotlights ham-handed oversight and confirms many findings of a yearlong investigation by The Center for Investigative …
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Keck School of Medicine of USC To Host Lectures By Winners Of The 2013 …
7, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation today announced that the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles will host the 2014 Lasker Lectures featuring recipients of the 2013 Lasker Awards …
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'America's Suburb' — the San Fernando Valley — and Heroin: International …
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 13, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — B.I.L.Y. (Because I Love You), an international 32-year old non-profit dedicated to supporting parents and helping them develop solid parenting skills, will convene the first ever Heroin Kills …
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Barostim Therapy: A cost-effective treatment for patients with drug resistant …
CVRx, Inc., a privately held medical device company, today announced findings from a health-economic analysis published in the Journal of Hypertension that indicates Barostim Therapy is a cost-effective treatment option for patients with drug resistant …
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Southern California Drug Rehab Offers 30 Day No-Cost Treatment
Aimed at providing high-end substance abuse treatment for those otherwise deterred by the common high costs associated with this level of care, the 60/90 program makes available their well-regarded 90-day inpatient program for the price of 60. Its …
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Chief Keef sentenced to 90 days in drug rehab
According to DNAinfo, Chief Keef has been ordered into a 90-day residential drug treatment program. After violating his parole with two failed drug tests, the 18-year-old rapper, born Keith Cozart, was sentenced to 20 days in a Chicago jail last month.
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Teen Rehab Center Three Stones Wellness Addresses Teen Addiction and …
According to a Monitoring the Futures survey, illicit drug use amongst teens remains at a high level, largely due to the popularity of marijuana as a perceived "safe" drug. Although there are 2,400 adult treatment centers in California to address the …
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Audit: LA County Failed To Properly Regulate Drug Treatment Clinics
In July, an investigation by the Center for Investigative Reporting and CNN found that $ 94 million has been awarded over the past two years through the Drug Medi-Cal Treatment Program to 56 clinics in Southern California that have engaged in fraudulent …
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