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Adams City High in Commerce City offers pot offenders treatment option
"Only 10 percent of kids who could benefit from substance abuse treatment actually receive it," Riggs said. "It was clear that that 90 percent of adolescents who could benefit from this program are in high schools. The key to prevention is early …
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Runaway/Throwaway Children: Predictors and Preventions
Various types of treatment for substance-abusing runaway adolescents has been found effective, including community reinforcement approach, motivational interviewing, and ecologically-based family therapy, with motivational interviewing showing the …
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New Painkiller Offers Potential for Abuse and Addiction
Timberline Knolls is a leading private residential treatment center for women and adolescent girls (ages 12 – 65+) with eating disorders, substance abuse, trauma, mood and co-occurring disorders. Located in suburban Chicago, residents receive excellent …
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Greater access to addiction treatment, support services for family, friends needed
Jennifer L. Flanagan, D-Leominster, who lead the meeting Richard Moore, D-Uxbridge, has been visiting various sections of the state as the chairwoman of the Senate Special Committee on Drug Abuse and Treatment Options. Wednesday she said that the …
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Fighting heroin addiction / Treatment beds needed
Cape May County does not have a single bed listed in the state Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services' treatment directory (although the county does offer placement services and covers three weeks of in-patient treatment through a group …
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Heroin in a small town
Each week, there are new drug cases before the courts and new clients entering drug treatment programs throughout Ashtabula County. Drugs are in our … Soon the occasional high escalates into daily use and it becomes a chore to find more of the drug.
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Patients Often Win If They Appeal A Denied Health Claim
For Tony Simek, a software engineer in El Mirage, Arizona, appealing was the only way he was able to get treatment for sleep apnea. Though mild for many people, the condition had become life-threatening for Simek. "I had actually gotten to a place …
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How to Stop a Weed Addiction — In this hangout we are discussing discussing how to stop a Weed Addiction with people who have gone through an addiction to weed and have sucessfully stopped…

Uruguay Proposes Giving Marijuana to Cocaine Addicts in Prison
Well, that's one way to deal with a coke habit: a Uruguayan official told the UN last week that they wanted to start experimenting with marijuana as a way to treat its prisoners suffering from cocaine addictions. It's a bit of a desperate measure …
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Panhellenic Association releases guide on mental health
Jordan Kaye, the organization's vice president of standards, who wrote the guide, said an updated version with information on eating disorders, sexual assault and substance abuse could be released by the end of the month. “This packet was created to …
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4 Failed Attempts to Crack Down on Prescription Drug Abuse (and Their …
4 Failed Attempts to Crack Down on Prescription Drug Abuse (and Their Unintended Consequences) Prescription drug abuse is finally showing signs of stabilizing. Some believe this gradual decline is the result of government efforts to crack down on the …
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Question by flod_prfekshun: Counseling?
I am 17. My parents just split up about a week ago. My mom was dropping me off at work (eck no, I can’t drive yet) and she told me that she was going to go into AA and take counseling. She said in a couple months she thought it would be a good idea for me to take counseling too, to work out any issues I have from the abuse I’ve dealt with the past 6 years (verbal, not physical). I think I am fine. lol I’ve gotten tough to it over the years. You know? lol But do you think I should try it anyway and see what comes up or what? It sounds like it would be interesting to hear what they had to say, but I’m not one to share personal information very often. Opinions? Thanks. =)
I suppose it’s fair to mention that alcoholism, drugs, and infidelity are involved. -_- Not me though! I despise the stuff.