CDC Over-Counted Opioid Overdoses
… Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly. Drug overdose deaths have increased 137 percent — 200 percent for opioids — since 2000, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced in its January 1 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report … Read more on Pain News Network

Dove House rescues women from addiction
The woman once warned her that addiction starts with cigarettes, then progresses to pot, pills and meth. "I looked … She is sitting in a cramped office at Dove Recovery House, the largest substance abuse recovery center for women in Indianapolis. She … Read more on Indianapolis Star

Grant County overdoses, drug deaths doubled in the past year
Marion's General Hospital also has seen an epidemic like increase in the number of HIV and Hepatitis C cases because addicts are sharing needles. And for now, in Marion and across Indiana, resources and rehab facilities have not kept pace with people … Read more on WRTV Indianapolis

Activists promote opiate antidote as US overdoses surge
Such overdoses killed 23,150 people in the United States in 2013, the most recent year for which national figures were available, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, while deaths from heroin alone quadrupled to 8,257 that … Read more on Fox News

Panama City Beach rehab facility sparks backlash
He said Friday he has gotten that endorsement to put up a 6-foot-tall privacy fence that would stretch across the right of way next to the street and to vegetation in the next lot, which supporters hope would deter people from the rehab center from … Read more on The News Herald

Kent mental health nonprofit buys defunct treatment center building
Originally, Valley Cities had planned to build a new center called Woodmont Recovery Center for these treatment services in Des Moines, on what is currently an empty eight-acre lot on Pacific Highway near 272nd Street. After a public outcry that the … Read more on Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle)

Police brace for heroin rise
Heroin use was declared an epidemic in Coos County last week, and if it's there, said Gold Beach Police Chief Dixon Andrews, the problem will find its way south to Curry County. “It's coming, no question about it,” Andrews said. “Five years ago … Read more on Curry Coastal Pilot

Renz Center joins #GivingTuesday effort
CHARLES – Renz Addiction Counseling Center has joined #GivingTuesday, a global day of giving that harnesses the collective power of individuals, communities and organizations to encourage philanthropy and to celebrate generosity worldwide, according … Read more on Kane County Chronicle

7K still needed to fund addiction recovery center
Serving the 13-county Concho Valley region for 50 years, the nonprofit organization provides outpatient and residential substance abuse treatment as well as education in prevention. The planned center would bring a badly needed new element to the … Read more on San Angelo Standard Times

Better treatment for addicts
Prescription painkiller use roughly quadrupled over the past 15 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Between 2013 and 2014, enough opioid painkillers prescriptions were filled in South Carolina to treat almost every … Read more on Charleston Post Courier

School drug tests costly and ineffective
“We find that testing students who participate in extracurricular activities is a reasonably effective means of addressing the school district's legitimate concerns in preventing, deterring and detecting drug use,” Clarence Thomas wrote for the 5-4 … Read more on Bristol Press

Feds haven't done enough to stop rise of drug-resistant infections: Audit
The use of antimicrobial drugs is a cornerstone of modern medicine to treat infections and perform safer surgeries, but organisms develop resistance naturally over time — a process that accelerates with improper use of the drugs. Not only has the … Read more on Toronto Sun

Opinion: School drug tests: costly, ineffective and multiplying
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says about 18 percent of public high schools — nearly 1 in 5 — have mandatory drug-testing policies like the one Carroll County adopted. In New Jersey, more than 30 districts test for drug use. In most … Read more on NorthJersey.com

Medical marijuana support is growing, Iowa Poll shows
They're pushing to broaden the law, to allow people to obtain marijuana products to treat epilepsy and a range of other issues, including cancer, Crohn's disease, chronic pain and post-traumatic stress disorder. The advocates say Iowa should join the … Read more on DesMoinesRegister.com

DC-area news briefs
Wolfe was taken to an area hospital for treatment of injuries not considered life-threatening, police said. Bell was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore where she died, police said. An investigation indicated that alcohol may have been a … Read more on Washington Post

As You Were Saying…Raise glass to a fairer alcohol tax
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate the cost of alcohol consumption in Massachusetts paid by government, including local governments, at 75 cents per drink — or $ 338 per capita. By comparison, the … This special treatment is not … Read more on Boston Herald

In Theory: Should church leaders abstain from alcohol?
Anyone for whom alcohol is a problem needs help and it seems that abstaining is safest, though I have read of treatment programs that allow social drinking. Those in a leadership position such as the ministry should be concerned that their behavior is … Read more on Burbank Leader

Don't arrest addicts, give them free drugs, Chief Constable says
Mr Barton said he supported the introduction of closely monitored consumption rooms where addicts could be supplied with heroin and take the drug in relative safety. Under his proposals addicts would only be allowed to inject if they could prove they … Read more on Telegraph.co.uk

MediciNova Provides Update on Clinical Trial of MN-166 (Ibudilast) in ALS
ALS clinical trials can be difficult to enroll, but we have the continued support of the CDC (U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) to spread awareness of our trial to ALS patients. We look forward to providing further updates as the study … Read more on GlobeNewswire (press release)

Akron police: Fight over money led to stabbing
The father, Kevin Golec, had a drug problem and had been taking money from the family, Akron police Lt. Rick Edwards said. … Jacob Nash, the head of an Akron support group for transgender people, said the victim was a trans woman known as Bri Golec. Read more on Akron Beacon Journal