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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Lucida Addiction and Mental Health Treatment Center Opens in Florida
Elements Behavioral Health opens Lucida, a substance abuse and mental health treatment center that blends evidence-based and alternative therapies, exceptional clinical and medical staff, personalized care, and resort-style amenities in a safe, private …
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Lakeview Health, a Florida-based drug and alcohol rehab center, has hired Chef …
Chef Marco is a recognized expert in this expanding culinary discipline and has worked to develop other recovery-focused menus for addiction treatment centers nationally. This marks the latest expansion by Lakeview Health under its new leadership in 2013.
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Addiction Rehab Center Could Close
With an annual budget of $ 400,000–less than half of what it was only a few years ago, the rehab center could close its doors for good in February. Officials say many of the current patients can't afford to receive treatment, since health insurance …
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Fremont County Bulletin Board
7 a.m. The Royal Gorge Amateur Radio Club meets at Mr. Ed's restaurant for a Dutch treat breakfast. For more information … 10 a.m. to noon and 1-3 p.m. Holiday Art Classes will be offered to children, ages 5 to 12, in the Bell Tower Cultural Center …
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Collaborative efforts fighting NKY Heroin epidemic
No one knows the pain heroin causes more than the mothers who have bury their children who die from an overdose, like Rosie Christian. As FOX19 reported earlier this year Rosie's son, James Barton, died of a heroin … "If we don't help the kids that …
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Planned luxury rehab for Red Hook worries locals
Locals are up in arms over a plan to open a high-end drug and alcohol abuse rehab center in Red Hook. Urban Recovery House, a for-profit provider, plans on opening an upscale 25 to 30 bed inpatient treatment facility on an industrial stretch of Beard St.
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Fremont Treatment Center Announces Program to Ease Abusive Dependence …
A Fremont treatment center is announcing that new adult and adolescent programs aimed at tackling substance abuse issues, mainly drugs and alcohol, are now available for people through Drug Addiction Treatment Centers. A report from the U.S. …
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Hospitals have some duplication, job risks
But in 2014, the local health-care dynamic likely will change as bankruptcy proceedings move forward for Saint Francis Hospital and Health Centers and Vassar Brothers Medical Center's parent company, Health Quest Systems Inc., attempts to buy it …
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North Penn Life Community Datebook: Week of Dec. 15
19 – Water Tower Square (Thursday), Horsham Rd. and North Wales Rd., Montgomeryville, 12-4 and 5-7 p.m., Estate of George S. Snyder, Inc., Cowpath Rd., Hatfield, 12:30-3:45 p.m., Hatfield Village Apartments, Maple Ave., Hatfield, 5-7 p.m.; and Dec. 20 …
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2013-12-19T00:00:00Z Facilitating recoveryBy Mike Smith The Montana …
“When everybody checks their egos at the door and everybody suits up and nobody has to be a home-run hitter, it's amazing what you can get done,” Mike Thatcher, chief executive officer of Community, Counseling and Correctional Services, Inc., told …
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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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