Northwestern District Attorney David Sullivan says opioid overdoes a 'public …
While preventing addiction would be preferable, he said, the area also needs more residential substance abuse treatment centers for those who are already addicted. Most often, the only detoxification addicts get is when they go to jail for drug …
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Editorial: Prison is no place for mentally ill
The judge may then send them to one of the state's few mental health/substance abuse treatment centers. If there are no available beds, as is often the case, they are sent to a prison – Bridgewater State Hospital for men, MCI-Framingham for women.
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Baby-boomer drug and alcohol warning
The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction has estimated that the number of people aged over 65 needing treatment for drug problems in Europe will double between 2001 and 2020. The DrugScope report says about 1.4 million people …
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