Addiction treatment facility doubles
The Oxford Centre is a residential addiction treatment center, and the current detour to reach it through miles of narrow backroads and numerous turns is an apt metaphor for the addiction recovery journey itself: When the easy route is no longer …
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Committee To Study Drug Addiction Treatment
BOSTON — Citing a rise in overdose deaths, the Massachusetts Senate will create a special committee to study the application of a state law that allows the court system to commit certain individuals to inpatient substance abuse treatment facilities …
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State of the State address targets Vt. drug problem
In addition, Shumlin said he will ask for more spending for statewide recovery centers, as well as funding for substance abuse and mental health treatment services for those on state assistance, in his 2015 budget proposal. That will represent more …
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States consider reviving old-fashioned executions
LOUIS (AP) — With lethal-injection drugs in short supply and new questions looming about their effectiveness, lawmakers in some death penalty states are considering bringing back relics of a more gruesome past: firing squads, electrocutions and gas …
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Surry man sentenced to 14 years for kidnapping teen at gunpoint during BMW sale
Landry told the court he hit a low point at the time of the crime but is no longer abusing drugs and is up-to-date on the medications he needs to control his mental illnesses. At the time of the kidnapping, he had recently been discharged from the Army …
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David Stern leaves as 'No. 1 reason' for NBA success
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the NBA had an insufficient TV deal, a reputation for its crippling substance abuse problem and lacked a national identity. "The NBA was on a course, but still going from side to side," said Jerry Colangelo, the USA …
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Science of the Times: Corbett's re-election hopes going to pot
By Alex Rose, Delaware County Daily Times. Posted: 01/27/14, … On the other hand, a spokesman did say Corbett might consider legalizing marijuana for medical use if the federal Food and Drug Administration deems it a valid treatment. Here's the thing …
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Cardium Announces Strategic Focus On Advanced Regenerative Therapeutics …
This target patient population represents about 12% of patients with angina pectoris, and is estimated to total approximately 900,000 patients in the U.S. The ASPIRE trial is a randomized, 100 patient, multi-center study with two parallel arms, and is …
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The calendar
12-Step Recovery Groups – offered daily at the Alano Club, 1202 S. Front St., Marquette. Clinic Services – HIV/AIDS … Substance Abuse/Addiction Support Group – held from 5:30-6:30 p.m. every Tuesday in Group Room 2 of the Neldberg Building at …
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Clinic Offers Incentives, Counseling To Teens Struggling With Substance Abuse
Dartmouth College Medical School has teamed up with Burlington's Spectrum Youth and Family Services to offer a new outpatient treatment program for teens and their families struggling with substance abuse. Listen. The Teen Intervention Program for …
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Drug–abuse counselor dies 5 years after neighbor's meth-lab fire
Nikki Cain, a former Tulsa substance-abuse counselor who was left brain-damaged from a meth lab fire at her apartment complex in 2009, died Jan. 6. She was 60. Courtesy. Posted: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 12:00 am | Updated: 4:06 am, Wed Jan 22, …
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Substance abuse counselor accused of smuggling cell phones to inmate
A substance abuse counselor at Jackson Correctional Institution is accused of smuggling cellular telephones to an inmate. Fifty-two-year-old Karen L. Robertson was charged last week in Jackson County Circuit Court after authorities recently found two …
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New substance abuse treatment resources focus on teens
Resources to help parents, health care providers, and substance abuse treatment specialists treat teens struggling with drug abuse, as well as identify and interact with those who might be at risk, were released today by the National Institute on Drug …
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The Impact of Marijuana Legalization on RI's College Campuses
Christian Thurstone, an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and medical director of one of Colorado's largest youth substance abuse treatment clinics, Denver Health's Substance Abuse Treatment Education …
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Harry Reid Backs Medical Marijuana
Medical research on marijuana is extremely difficult to conduct because it remains a Schedule I drug under the federal Controlled Substances Act — meaning, among things, that the government judges it to have no currently accepted medical use. However …
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Washington Cities Can Block Pot, State's Attorney General Says
"If we're just selling drugs to addicts, I don't know what we're accomplishing," he told the Florida Times-Union. But three months later, Shorstein cleared the officers of any criminal wrongdoing. …. McCormick used pot to treat the pain associated …
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