Rahall, Rockefeller, Manchin Announce Funding to Expand Substance Abuse …
Monday announced Federal funding has been awarded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to Prestera Center to expand and increase patient access to mental health treatment and substance abuse recovery …
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Treating Addiction: Saving Money but Not Lives
Maine's governor and members of the State Legislature have cut funding for opioid addiction treatment services in the state and have sought to limit access to treatment. Their actions have been explained as trying to save some money. One can only …
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A centuries-old pattern in drug abuse by women
Both the statement made by the director of the CDC that fatalities of this type in women are “underrecognized” and by a New York Times reporter that “prescription pain pill addiction was originally seen as a man's problem” show how little we have …
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School Drug Tests on the Rise in NJ
But the success stories aren't backed up by hard numbers, and forcing students who participate in extracurricular activities to provide urine, hair or blood samples for testing without prior suspicion that they are abusing drugs has outraged some …
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NY Senator Wants to Cut College Student Prescription Drug Abuse
Prescription drug abuse among college students is rampant and now New York Senator Schumer wants new regulations to halt the “academic doping.” If you or someone you know is suffering from a prescription drug dependency, contact a professional detox …
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My partner and I are recovering alcoholics and our relationship needs …
I've been married for over 20 years but we have stopped having sex. I am almost ten years older than him and we both have backgrounds affected by alcoholism. We are both are in 12 step programs and he is also in Sex Addicts Anon. He is not unfaithful …
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Why She Drinks: Women and Alcohol Abuse
In New York's Westchester County, where I had lived previously, women would pass around a flask at dreary school functions. Alcohol and motherhood were intertwined, so much so that after I had my third daughter in the anxious autumn after 9/11, I …
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My Intoxicant of Choice
When I describe running as my sobriety tool, some recovering alcoholics tell me I've simply swapped addictions and that they'll keep an Alcoholics Anonymous chair warm for me. They miss the point. In fact, after 15 years of chronic drinking and drug …
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Study finds no link between childhood ADHD drug use and adult drug abuse
"Our study provides an important update to clinicians. Particularly for those who are concerned that stimulant medication is a 'gateway' drug or increases the risk for later substance use, there is no evidence at the group level for this hypothesis …
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No Link Seen Between Child Stimulant Use and Later Drug Abuse
An analysis published Wednesday by the American Medical Association said children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder who take stimulant medication do not have a lower risk over all for later substance abuse, contradicting the longstanding …
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Philip Seymour Hoffman Just Checking Out of Detox Facility for Drug Abuse
Philip Seymour Hoffman Just Checking Out of Detox Facility for Drug Abuse. Add Comment. May 31, 2013 07:23:50 GMT. The Art Howe of 'Moneyball' reveals his drug problems came back after his use of prescription pills escalates to snorting heroin. Tweet …
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Maine House Rejects Bill to Ban Medicaid Coverage for Opiate Addiction …
With one of the highest rates in the country of people seeking treatment, Maine, opponents argued, is in no position to pull the rug out from those who want and need help. Susan Sharon has more. Related Media. Maine House Rejects Bill to Ban Medicaid …
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Drug addiction seen as threat to Maine safety
AUGUSTA – Crime statistics released by the state Wednesday show that Maine remains one of the safest states, but drug addiction continues to be a serious threat, driving property and violent crimes. click image to enlarge. Maine's violent crime rate in …
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No Link Seen Between Child Stimulant Use and Later Drug Abuse
The diagnosis rate rose to 19 percent for boys of high school age. Stimulant medication is by far the most prevalent treatment for childhood A.D.H.D., with the vast majority of children at least trying medication and about 60 percent of them staying on …
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Baffling Rise in Suicides Plagues the US Military
Yet though the Pentagon has commissioned numerous reports and invested tens of millions of dollars in research and prevention programs, experts concede they are little closer to understanding the root causes of why military suicide is rising so fast …
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Medicare Fraud Strike Force Charges 89 Individuals for Approximately 3 …
Attorney General Eric Holder and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced on Tuesday that a nationwide takedown by Medicare Fraud Strike Force operations in eight cities has resulted in charges against 89 …
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