Horns for Hope offers addicts mu…
Don Berner thought that was actually a pretty good idea, so the community-minded Edmonton saxophonist created Horns for Hope, a program where men in drug rehab at Hope Mission can perform in a real concert band. Right now they're working on a …
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New Beginnings
When Mae Lee Browning JD'14 tried meth for the first time at age 16, she thought, “Finally, everything is OK in the world.” But nine years later, surrounded by prostitutes and criminals in a rehab facility, Browning knew her habit was consuming her …
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Business owners fed up with criminals freed from Shasta County Jail
The 919 releases included those serving sentences and those awaiting sentencing, many on drug charges and probation violations. Ten were in custody for …. Rehabilitation is important, but so is cracking down on street crime. But he acknowledges, with …
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Full legalization of marijuana offers many challenges
“This is something we need to address sooner rather than later, and it's not going away anytime soon,” Scott E. Yasko, a national account executive with Prium, a Georgia-based medical intervention company, said during a panel discussion at the National …
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Employers can play a role in early monitoring and intervention for substance abuse
TORONTO, May 1, 2014 /CNW/ – Cira Medical Services (Cira) advocates for diagnosis and support for individuals challenged with substance abuse. The recent announcement by Toronto's Mayor serves as a cautionary example of the financial and human …
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The Public Eye: Daughter suing Sacramento County, ex-coroner for handling of …
… which has held 2,000 funerals across the country for veterans who would have been unrecognized if not for the organization's research and intervention. Veterans often come back from war with mental illness, drug and alcohol addiction and other …
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Heroin killed her son; mom helps others get treatment (video)
Al Nace, administrative director of outpatient substance abuse services for the HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley, said his agency provides outpatient services, clinic programs for adults and adolescents and counseling services, referring to the …
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Despite progress, an uncertain future in Alaska's battle against fetal alcohol …
It took little more than a decade for Alaska to slash its sky-high fetal alcohol syndrome rates, reducing the number of children born with the lifelong birth defect by a third. Using a $ 29 million federal earmark the state seeded FASD diagnostic …
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Question by : Alcoholic or alcohol abuse?
I’ve been having these weird cravings for alcohol for months now . I wasn’t all into drinking till January of this year when I realized alcohol made me feel better than anything . I’m 18 by the way . My drinking has caught my two doctors and moms attention . I even got a substance abuse therapist. It’s hard for me to not be sober . I hate it alot . Once when I consumed all 3 bottles of my parents wine because i was broke . i also go to a liquor store at least 2 times a week to buy at least 2 bottles of some strong liquor . Once I get a beer I can’t stop drinking . When I go to parties I always worry if there’s alcohol there. I drink by myself till I throw up I’ve noticed . Ive had 3 black outs . I basically drink when I’m sad , upset or bored . I don’t enjoy anyone’s company so I like to drink alone . I’m always desperate for alcohol I feel incomplete without it . And when I drink I get aggressive or do things I regret the next day . My ex boyfriend broke up with me cause he said I have a problem . So please can someone help me???

Question by Cathy S: Strange therapist?
Please I need some advice. I’ve been going to a therapist who is basically not nice. When I’ve tried to stop going I’m always given a hard time. Now, I’m going to find a new therapist but I’m nervous. The last one would ask me definitions of unusual words and smirk if I couldn’t come up with the right answer, mock me, and more I will not go into… I’d leave crying. I have average intelligence, I’m not a genius, what kind of pleasure would someone who is supposed to help you get from mocking a person? How do you check out a therapist to be sure they do not have a mean streak? When I go to the new person should I mention the last therapist had a mean streak or just say I needed a change. I’m really afraid to get help now and I have depression.

Substance–abuse program expanded into county jail
He and nine others have been selected as the first class of Fourth Avenue Jail inmates to participate in Maricopa County's long-running Alpha Program, an intensive substance-abuse program that, until now, was not available in that facility. Until …
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CA considers substance abuse program for doctors
Assembly Bill 2346, authored by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego), would authorize the Medical Board of California to create a voluntary and confidential program to help doctors with substance abuse. Tina Minasian said during a state …
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