Teen Substance Abuse Treatment – Her Story – Center for Discovery
Teen Substance Abuse Treatment – Her Story – Center for Discovery – A client of Center for Discovery talks about her story of substance abuse including some of the contributing factors. She also discusses the serious conseque…
State House News — Combo of drug abuse and mental illness creates challenge
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Sometimes seen as “self-medication,” drugs and alcohol can worsen mental illness but treating substance abuse is not always given the high priority it deserves, according to some. “You can't solve either unless you treat them both,” said Lynda Cutrell, …
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Don't Cut Drug–Abuse Research, Experts Tell Hill Staffers
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Congress must continue to support National Institutes of Health (NIH) research efforts to improve effective treatments, ease dissemination, and use technology to help military personnel and their families deal with substance abuse in the aftermath of …
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Barbados Signs Agreement on Drug Treatment Court Project
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The initiative seeks to promote judicially-supervised treatment alternatives to incarceration for drug offenders. Barbados Attorney General Adriel Brathwaite and Angela Crowdy, Acting Assistant Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Drug Abuse …
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