Addicts overwhelm Kentucky's drug treatment options
Rachelle Autry's five-year addiction to painkillers and heroin left her jobless, homeless, alone — and in desperate need of help. But her search for a residential drug treatment center led to one dead-end after another. There were none near her home …
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Oregon finds efforts to treat drug addicts paying off
And Oregonians are much more likely to receive intensive treatment; for example, 10 percent of treatment admissions were to long-term, residential facilities, compared with 1.1 percent in Kentucky. Drug overdose death rates in 2008, the most recent …
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Greenfield And Recchia Oppose Drug Treatment Center Near Schools
“I am deeply concerned about the drug treatment facility that is being proposed for McDonald Avenue. To place a facility that intends to serve criminals and parolees for drug and alcohol abuse treatment in such close proximity to schools and …
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