Hope Fund: Music died with drinking, drug use; fomer addict wants instrument
For more than a year, Florence has been free from substance abuse and takes his medications religiously. Currently, Florence lives on a monthly Social Security disability insurance check of just over $ 800. After rent, cable and groceries, he has little … Read more on Florida Times-Union

Music died with drinking, drug use; but former addict wishes for instrument …
For more than a year, Florence has been free from substance abuse and takes his medications religiously. Currently, Florence lives on a monthly Social Security disability insurance check of just over $ 800. After rent, cable and groceries, he has little … Read more on Florida Times-Union

'Average age of drug addicts is decreasing and it's alarming': Mukta …
This place can only close down if there are no addicts and hence this is my unusual wish,” said Puntambekar. Stressing on various patterns in drug and substance abuse, she said, “Over the years since I joined the institution in 1993, I have seen … Read more on The Indian Express

Seeking help: Egg Harbor Township facility offers another option for substance …
Of 23.2 million people needing treatment for drug or alcohol use in 2007, only 2.4 million received treatment at a hospital, drug or alcohol rehabilitation or mental health center, the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's … Read more on Press of Atlantic City

Hospital visits due to substance abuse up 63 per cent in Vancouver area
A recent study from Columbia University found that more than 70 per cent of people who have a chronic condition such as hypertension are getting appropriate treatment, while only ten per cent of people with chronic substance abuse problems receive … Read more on Vancouver Sun

Christie: The war on drugs has failed, treat NJ heroin addiction as an illness
To combat New Jersey's growing heroin and opioid crisis, Gov. Chris Christie says the state needs to embrace a dramatically different approach to substance abuse, but cautioned that he will not write a blank check to get it there. In his time as … Read more on NJ.com

N.J. heroin crisis: Senate, Assembly pass bills that would expand Narcan …
Both the state Assembly and Senate passed bills which would bolster mental health and addiction services for prison inmates, create a report card ranking substance abuse treatment centers for the public and extend immunity to emergency responders and … Read more on NJ.com

Difficulties making diagnoses only add to challenges
There are people who try to take advantage of the subjectivity of pain and the fact it can't be proven by faking it to get prescriptions for narcotics, which they abuse or sell to other drug users. Conversely, doctors can be overly suspicious that … Read more on Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel

NJ Assembly Bill Package to Prevent Prescription Drug & Opioid Abuse Gains …
“This package includes evidence-based health care strategies aimed at both preventing addiction and targeting the myriad physical and emotional issues associated with recovery,” said Herb Conaway, M.D. (D-Burlington), chair of the Assembly Health and … Read more on Bergen Dispatch

Giving addicts a Fresh Start
Fresh Start, established in 1992, runs a 50-bed residential drug and alcohol addiction treatment centre for men in the city's northeast. And the need for treatment is great. In 2006, the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse estimated the societal cost of … Read more on Calgary Herald

Forum focuses on anti-addiction accomplishments
The county took the comments from that forum and put them into various categories, including Prevention and Education, Treatment and Recovery Support. At the third forum, March 6, participants were asked to prioritize the comments and concerns under … Read more on Shore News Today

It's Time to Reclaim the Word 'Recovery'
The addiction field has struggled with defining recovery at least as long and as fiercely as it has with defining addiction: Since we can't even agree on whether it's a disease, a learning disorder, or a criminal choice, it becomes even harder to … Read more on Pacific Standard

Grant to help combat youth drug abuse in Sumner County
The Gallatin-based organization, which aims to help prevent and reduce youth substance abuse, was one of only seven new recipients in Tennessee of a federally-funded Drug-Free Communities Support Program grant this year. As part of the … Last fall … Read more on The Tennessean

Fighting State's Heroin Epidemic Key To Charlie Baker's Plans As Governor
“If you've talked to some anguished parents about this, you can't help but come away thinking we have to do a better job on this,” Baker said. … She says initially the battle involved alcohol addiction, but has now shifted to include opioid and … Read more on CBS Local

The Army Is Building An Algorithm To Prevent Suicide
There's a long list of factors for suicide — marriage and financial problems, depression, alcohol and drug abuse, chronic pain, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), etc. — and each person's mix … With the help of people, the computers are getting … Read more on FiveThirtyEight

Community Coalition seeks input via online survey
Sea Mar offers mental health and substance abuse treatment for adults at their Behavioral Health Services clinic, medical and dental care services at their community health center, and substance abuse treatment oriented towards youth at their youth … Read more on Monroe Monitor

'By the time it's approved, the client's gone': Insurance, system failures …
As McKay's first pangs of withdrawal kicked in – vomiting, diarrhea, shaking and cold sweats – his family was told that detoxification centers across the county were full. A hospital in Pittsburgh turned McKay away because it didn't consider opioid … Read more on PennLive.com

Survey shows high incidence of mental illness, trauma among R.I.'s homeless
The survey reinforces what advocates have long argued: the homeless spend a disproportionate amount of time in costly emergency rooms, jails, hospitals and detox centers. According to the coalition, 545 of those surveyed visited an emergency room 3,815 … Read more on The Providence Journal

Ruben Rosario: She died alone and homeless, but she will not be forgotten
Indeed, in order to secure a one-room apartment at the facility, residents must have 20 or more admissions to detox centers in the past three years, two or more attempts at chemical dependency treatment and have been homeless for most of the past five … Read more on TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press