Drug Addiction

Editorial: State Must Step Up to Help Drug Addicts Get Proper Treatment

Editorial: State must step up to help drug addicts get proper treatment
Insurance companies, including MassHealth, make it difficult for addicts to get the help they need, according to many who have studied addiction and attempted to help addicts. That must change immediately. The Senate Special Committee on Section 35 and …
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Drug addicts lack help – Rural Women
The organisation representing rural women says it concerned about a… Continue reading

Mandatory Drug Testing for Law Enforcers Is Now Law

Mandatory drug testing for law enforcers is now law
Gov. Eloy S. Inos signed into law a nine-month-old bill requiring annual mandatory drug tests for law enforcement officers, recognizing “several incidents of illegal drug abuse involving law enforcement as well as the fact that many of these employees carry firearms and hold safety-sensitive functions.”
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Budget cash tackles Vic drug/alcohol abuse
The Victorian government has announced it will spend… Continue reading

San Diego CA Alcohol Drug Rehab Announces New Intervention Program Now … – PR Web (Press Release)

San Diego CA Alcohol Drug Rehab Announces New Intervention Program Now … – PR Web (press release)

San Diego CA Alcohol Drug Rehab Announces New Intervention Program Now
PR Web (press release)
San Diego, CA (PRWEB) April 28, 2014. San Diego CA Alcohol Drug Rehab is announcing that a new intervention program is now available for individuals looking to stop another person's horrid drug addiction in San Diego and other cities around the area.… Continue reading

Criminal Case Opened Over West Siberia's Altai Drug Addiction Clinic Fire

Criminal case opened over West Siberia's Altai drug addiction clinic fire
BARNAUL, April 27. /ITAR-TASS/. A criminal case was opened over a fire which broke out at the drug addiction rehabilitation centre in south-eastern West Siberia's Altai territory on a charge of providing services that do not meet safety requirements …
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Inmate hopes clemency changes will help him
… Department announced changes to its clemency criteria this week, a… Continue reading

$34m to Wean Rural Addicts Off Ice

m to wean rural addicts off ice
Mental Health Minister Mary Wooldridge said the money would support services for an extra 2000 people a year in response to growing use of ice and other drugs. The rapid spread of the methamphetamine has had a devastating impact on regional Victorian …
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Australia warned its ice problem is reaching pandemic proportions and is
Deputy Commissioner Ashton said Victoria had never before experienced… Continue reading

Medicaid Rates Pinch Treatment Centers

Medicaid rates pinch treatment centers
The federal government is now picking up the tab for most of Washington's publicly funded treatment of drug addiction, courtesy of President Barack Obama's health care law. … threatened closure of the Everett detox center run by Evergreen Manor and …
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Study Finds Almost Half Of Homeless Men Had Traumatic Brain Injury In Their
In men under age 40, falls from drug/alcohol blackouts were… Continue reading