Agencies Team Up to Fight Drug and Alcohol Abuse

Agencies team up to fight drug and alcohol abuse
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Agencies team up to fight drug and alcohol abuse. A JOINT initiative to tackle people developing drug and alcohol problems has been given the go-ahead after several organisations in Staffordshire decided to pool budgets. online news Staffordshire …
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Pocono social service agencies take big hits from state cuts
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Reductions in the recently approved state budget will force the three-county Drug and Alcohol Commission to provide detox, rehabilitation and outpatient follow up to 132 fewer people this year, Executive Director Rich Mroczka said. State funding, which …
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Colorado West receives 000 grant
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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo (KKCO) When the police pick up someone who needs alcohol or drug detox, they can take them three places. The first is jail, but it's overcrowded. The second is the emergency room, but that step can take an officer off the streets …
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California Researchers Name Two Drugs that Make a Good 'First Treatment …
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The researchers said both drugs work better when the subjects had stay away from alcohol for at least a few days before starting the drug trials, or had been through a detox program. Acamprosate is known to calm brain activity, thus help stabilize …
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