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Obama plans clemency for drug offenders
She graduated from a drug-addiction program in prison and became a certified drug counselor; she nearly completed her bachelor's degree in Bible studies; and she's finally dealing with her previously undiagnosed mental illness issues. But this isn't a …
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Nick Ringma Releases A BAKER'S DOZEN
Author Nick Ringma begs to disagree with the usually quipped cliché "Once an addict, always an addict" as he jots down the personal and clinical observations garnered from the professional perch of an addiction therapist in his book entitled "A Baker's …
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Study Says Legal Marijuana Encourages Teens to Smoke—Suncoast Rehab …
Suncoast's medical team designs treatment programs to physically address the malnutrition created by substance abuse, and the Suncoast counseling team tailors client therapy to help provide insight into the past—all intended to help addicts confront …
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Question by Volvogirl: how do they work?
well, how do rehabilitation centres work? i have a class assignment and i wanted to this stuff? it’s probably different for drugg addiction, self mutilation, alcoholism etc… can u brief about it? how do they start, wat kinda medication they put u on? how long is the time between the intervention and when u reach the centre?

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Answer by glistam3
There are vast differences depending on the type. First of, “rehabilitation” is a term that specifically is reserved for addiction (drugs or alcohol). The press loves to fling “rehabilitation” around to describe everything any celebrity does that involves “going to a place because one has a problem,” but that’s misusing the term.    Read more...

Crisis Intervention Team saves lives on mental health 911 calls
The course is sponsored by the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Summit County and the Summit County Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Board. About 530 law … Lisa Marie Griffin, 52, of Akron, suffers from depression and is bipolar. She …
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IV Ketamine Rapidly Effective in PTSD
At the doses used in these psychiatric applications, Garlow said, the drug's dissociative effects — which have led ketamine to become a drug of abuse — are not a serious problem. “The key is whether ketamine has a long-term beneficial effect,” said …
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Two new events added to Pride Week
Lambert's musical style is often compared to Adele, Tori Amos, Bon Iver, and James Blake, with topics that run through her early childhood traumas: sexual abuse, body image, bipolar disorder, drug abuse, homosexuality and religion. Luciana's unique …
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Grant to help county steer mentally ill away from jail
The grant was received by the county's Criminal Justice Mental Health and Substance Abuse committee, which includes social service agencies, police, judges and others who come in contact with the mentally ill, said Stuart Wegener, diversion resource …
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Explore: Avoid alcohol and drug abuse
The broader application includes the abuse of illegal drugs. The problem is—as it always has been—that knowing something is wrong rarely compels one to do what is right. Few people who have paid the price of alcohol or drug abuse did not know the …
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Niagara County mental health director retiring
… retired CEO of Rivershore Inc., a Lewiston mental health agency that affiliated last week with People Inc. She said the main areas of the Mental Health Department's focus are mental illness, developmental disabilities, and alcoholism and substance …
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Public Hearing on Alcoholism and Substance Abuse (part 2) – New York State Assemblyman Felix Ortiz questioned Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Commissioner Arlene Gonzalez-Sanchez on the issue of youth drinkin…

8 graduate from YWCA of the Greater Capital Region's Ready for Work program
The program was developed to address barriers women face when seeking employment, including a lack of a high school diploma, limited or no prior work history, prior substance abuse, mental illness, former incarceration, and basic literacy and academic …
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4 Shocking Facts About Prescription Drug Abuse in America
Rampant prescription drug abuse is costing us big: “In the United States, prescription opioid abuse costs [alone] were about $ 55.7 billion in 2007. Of this amount, 46% was attributable to workplace costs (e.g., lost productivity), 45% to healthcare …
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Anderson Machining, JHS in partnership
The curriculum starts with math, covering the relationship of whole numbers, fractions and decimals, negative and positive numbers, ratios and percentages, tax strategies, home and workplace calculator computations, doing simple right-angle …
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