drug and alcohol

Commissioner's View: Take Action on Methadone, Other Drugs

Commissioner's view: Take action on methadone, other drugs

Filed under: drug abuse treatment

Addiction to prescription drugs and other opiates is a growing crisis, so much so that the Minnesota State Substance Abuse Strategy released last year identified it as a top priority. Ironically, the problem extends to a drug used to treat heroin and …
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Forgery defendant to be screened for substance abuse treatment

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Op-Ed: Let Parents Help Drug-Troubled Teens

Op-ed: Let parents help drug-troubled teens

Filed under: teen drug abuse

If she didn't want more, that was that. Why does a teen with drug addiction and mental health issues get to “decide” on her own her health care? Many addicts say they turned around for the better when placed in jail. They are forced to. I wanted to …
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Exclusive! Courtland Rogers Reveals Shocking New Details Of Jenelle Evans

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Doctor Offers Solutions for Healthcare — Without ObamaCare

Doctor Offers Solutions for Healthcare — Without ObamaCare

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In an exclusive video interview, Dr. Alieta Eck, co-founder of the Zarephath Health Center and former president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, offered her prescription for real solutions to the nation's healthcare crisis. (The …
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Ministries help ex-offenders re-enter society beyond prison

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The Existential Pain of Being Young, White, and Affluent

The Existential Pain of Being Young, White, and Affluent

Filed under: drug addiction treatment centers

This would have been fairly easy to answer some years ago when the opioid abuse so regnant in low-income, rural communities (pigeonholed as "hillbilly heroin") was the role prescription drug addiction seemed to be playing on the national stage …
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Researcher foresees DNA data in treating addiction

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Agility Clinical Partners With PSR Orphan Drug Experts

Agility Clinical Partners with PSR Orphan Drug Experts

Filed under: drug treatment program statistics

The number of rare diseases for which no treatment is currently available is estimated at approximately 6,800, according to the National Institute of Health (NIH). Nearly 30 million Americans, almost 1 in 10, are affected by a rare disease. Orphan …
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Court Intervention Alliance graduates first class

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Demand Surges at Halifax Needle Exchange

Demand surges at Halifax needle exchange

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The Mainline Needle Exchange is a non-profit group dedicated to supporting current and former drug users through harm reduction strategies. Part of that … to Oxycontin. There are also controversial "safe" crack kits that are designed to prevent …
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Repercussions of attorney's arrest

Filed under: drug addiction treatment centers michigan

Repercussions of attorney's arrest. A well-known Muskegon defense attorney now needs legal counsel himself after being arrested on a drug charge. … The increased charge is treated as a felony in Michigan, Muskegon County Prosecutor D.J. Hilson …
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