Heroin in Flagstaff a new challenge to drug treatment
The news that the actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman had died of a heroin overdose in New York City earlier this month was certainly shocking and sad. But in Flagstaff, it might have seemed like a story that at least couldn't happen here. Small cities on …
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Community warned of heroin epidemic in presentation at Ridley Middle School
Ridley Park Police Chief Mark Bascelli (r) shows Delaware County Councilman Tom McGarrigle some of the drug paraphernalia on display at last week's anti-drug town hall in Ridley Park. … Three days later he returned and eventually went to rehab.
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Crime-related facts need to be addressed now
I attended the public forum on the Crime Prevention and Rehabilitation Act Workshop Saturday a week ago at the Carvel… Loading… Post to Facebook … Not the mass incarceration of black, but the Prison Industrial Complex and the audicity of …
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Sussex Boot Camp gets the boot
In a news release, the Delaware Department of Correction said the decision was reached after a “thorough” assessment of the program, which is located within the grounds of Sussex Correctional Institution. “This decision was based upon findings in the …
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Question by JonathanN: Does TNA have a “wellness program”?
Or do they just take in anyone and not care if they juice or not? Could Jeff Hardy go there if he doesn’t go to jail? Do they care about drug use?

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Answer by MICHAEL S
I don’t know.

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Discipline with dignity: Oakland schools try talk circles
His mom, who had been successfully doing drug rehabilitation, had relapsed. She'd been out for three days. The 14-year-old was going home every night to a motherless household and two younger siblings. He had been holding it together as best he could, …
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Health Briefs for March 5, 2014
Registration: Christ Medical Center's Health Advisor at (800) 323-8622, Code 1M03. Postpartum Support: Resources that will allow new mothers to become more knowledgeable about postpartum depression, its causes and available treatment options are …
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The road to recovery
Since its first center opened in New York, Teen Challenge has grown to nearly 250 centers in 48 states and over 1,000 centers in 95 countries. It is a Christian, faith-based approach to treatment of people with drug, alcohol and other life-controlling …
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Question by Ashlee: I cant remember the name of this book! Help?
I read a book in High School that I would like to read again, but I cant remember what the title was or even the author. It was about girl in high school, her step dad was a criminal in some way, I dont remember the details.. Anyway in the beginning of the book her step dad sets her up and she is sent to a jail/rehab of sorts.. I know my details are a little vague and probably not totally accurate.. Towards the end of the book she sets fire to the jail and escapes.. Does anybody have any idea what book I am thinking of??

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Answer by tiandron
Shock Point by April Henry
“Cassie discovers that her stepfather, Rick, a teen psychiatrist, has been illegally prescribing a new behavioral drug to his patients—and three teens have died. Before she can report him, Rick commits Cassie to Peaceful Cove, a boot camp for troubled teens in Mexico. Cassie knows she has to get out now, before more teens die. But no one has ever escaped from Peaceful Cove alive—and even if Cassie gets over the walls and survives the Mexican desert, will anyone believe her story?”

“The wicked stepmother motif is altered to wicked stepfather in this contemporary chiller. Cassie, 16, has suffered a year of upheavals: her parents’ divorce, her mother’s remarriage^B and new pregnancy, and the discovery that her stepfather’s psychiatric practice revolves around an experimental drug that may have led to the suicides of several of his teen patients. Leading off is a horrific scene of Cassie’s abduction, masterminded by her stepfather, who planted crystal meth in her room and arranged for her to be taken to a juvenile “rehabilitation” center. Organization is a strong point here. In the first part, Henry effectively shuttles between Cassie’s imprisonment and the discoveries that lead to it. In the second part, Cassie must free herself and obtain evidence to save other teens from the deadly drug–all but impossible tasks in the Dickensian atmosphere of the teen facility. Along with solid plotting and suspense comes a likable heroine who’s a good match for the nefarious adults in her life”

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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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