Drug Abuse

Daughter's heroin problem instructs Skokie police
Newberg is in the midst of a six-week training session with the police department, where she presents her family's story of heroin addiction as well as statistics about the severity of the problem. Also a certified drug counselor, she has been taking …
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Gazette opinion: Community remedies for health care gaps
It was no coincidence that the second highest need, according to the group, is substance abuse. Many, though not all, mentally ill people abuse alcohol and other drugs as they attempt to “self medicate” to deal with the symptoms of their mental …
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