Sheriff's Office Receives Grant for Residential Substance Abuse Treatment, 100 …
This is the fourth year the Sheriff's Office has applied for and received this funding. The funding will allow the Sheriff's Office to continue the extended Exodus in-custody substance abuse treatment program. The Coconino County Adult Probation …
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Arad Ltd. : Interactive 360 Donates Services to Support Local Drug and Alcohol …
Their mission is to provide affordable 30-day residential treatment for alcohol or drug addiction to Amarillo and the surrounding Panhandle area to those who otherwise could not afford these services due to various circumstances. Before ARAD , no such …
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Drug Rehab For Women Offers Alternatives to Drinking on NYE
Drug rehab for women treatment programs at Destination Hope: The Women's Program are designed to support women year-round, including the difficult period around New Year's Eve. The night of December 31st is associated with overindulgence and …
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Holiday Task Forces And Interlocks Effective, But DUI Prevention Complicated
Over the past several years, Arizona has put into place increasingly severe punishments for drunken driving. Those measures have helped … And couple that with counseling and addiction treatment programs and jail time," said Rookey. Last year, a …
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Alaska's harsh, unfair drug laws drain public finances, damage lives
Even Texas, our smaller, swaggering sister to the south, passed legislation in 2007 that reinvested $ 241 million from averted prison growth to expand substance abuse treatment and transitional re-entry programs. Why has execution-happy Texas outpaced …
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Elements Behavioral Health Acquires Journey Healing Centers' Network of …
Elements Behavioral Health, a leading nationwide provider of addiction and mental health treatment programs, announced today that it has acquired Journey Healing Centers' network of drug and alcohol treatment centers in Arizona and Utah. Journey …
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Phoenix Drug Detox Center Launches New Program to Halt Heroin Addiction …
A Phoenix drug rehab center is announcing a new program aimed at halting the harrowing effects of heroin addiction and abuse through Medical Drug Detox Center. … Think about the challenges you may face while you go through detox treatment services.
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OKC Mayoral Candidate Ed Shadid Faces New Drug Abuse Allegations
"It's a problem that isn't going to go away if we keep ignoring it," said Jeffrey Dismukes with the State Department of Substance Abuse. He can't talk specifically about this case but says 12 percent of Oklahomans have some sort of substance abuse …
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Novus Medical Detox Says Illicit Drug Use Affects Economy – Drug Incarceration …
Florida-based detox center Novus Medical Detox suggests the use of treatment programs instead of prison sentences as the best means of ending drug abuse in the U.S., as well as reducing the costs of incarceration. Share on Twitter Share on Facebook …
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doctors see increase in babies born with addictions
… and gynecologist at Mercy Medical Center, has been delivering babies who begin to experience withdrawal symptoms days or hours after being born to mothers who addicted to heroin or other opiates, or are on an opiate replacement treatment program.
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Brittany Ozarowski, NY Woman Who Faked Cancer Diagnosis To Fund Heroin …
Besides paying back the money in equitable restitution, she will need to do community service and enter into a 24-month inpatient and outpatient drug addiction treatment program. Failure to comply will result in four years of imprisonment. Still, some …
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This drug could make a huge dent in heroin addiction. So why isn't it used more?
By federal law, methadone must be delivered in a highly-structured opiate addiction program. It cannot be delivered in a physician's office. Buprenorphine can be. The Drug Abuse Treatment Act of 2000 was revolutionary in its specific intention to allow …
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