Drug Abuse

Mayors task force discusses drug abuse prevention, treatment
ELKTON — Mayors from Cecil County's eight towns continue to widen their net of information and partners in their quest to help the county reduce a substance abuse problem that all agree has gotten out of hand. An ambitious agenda with six potential …
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Greater access to addiction treatment, support services for family, friends needed
… the state judicial system, along with social service agencies met at the Webster Town Hall to discuss what needs to be done to responding to an increasing number of overdose incidents and how best to improve the prevention and treatment of drug abuse.
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Mindfulness Meditation May Reduce Drug User Relapse
In the study, 286 people who had been treated for substance abuse were assigned to receive one of three therapies after their initial treatment: a program that involved only group discussions, a "relapse- prevention" therapy that involved learning to …
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