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Alcohol, Drug Abuse Factors Leading to Probation – Brainerd Daily Dispatch

Alcohol, drug abuse factors leading to probation – Brainerd Daily Dispatch

Alcohol, drug abuse factors leading to probation
Brainerd Daily Dispatch
WALKER — Alcohol and drug abuse appear to be major factors causing Cass County to need to offer probation for law offenders and to provide out of home placement services for children. Michele Piprude, Cass social services manager, and Jim Schneider, 

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Home + School Programs Modestly Slow Teen Prescription Drug Abuse – PsychCentral.com


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Home + School Programs Modestly Slow Teen Prescription Drug Abuse
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Home + School Programs Modestly Slow Teen Prescription Drug Abuse Teen prescription drug abuse programs have experienced mixed levels of effectiveness, ranging from big drops in drug abuse to no measurable effect. The finding comes from a study of 
Pairing school and home programs most effective in curbing teen prescription News-Medical.net
The Fight Against Teens' Prescription Drug Abuse: School and Home ProgramsScience World Report

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Alcohol, Drug Abuse Factors Leading to Probation in Cass – Brainerd Daily Dispatch

Alcohol, drug abuse factors leading to probation in Cass – Brainerd Daily Dispatch

Alcohol, drug abuse factors leading to probation in Cass
Brainerd Daily Dispatch
WALKER — Alcohol and drug abuse appear to be major factors causing Cass County to need to offer probation for law offenders and to provide out of home placement services for children. Michele Piprude, Cass social services manager, and Jim Schneider, 

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Siouxland Groups Ban to Prevent Teen Prescription Drug Abuse

Siouxland Groups Ban To Prevent Teen Prescription Drug Abuse
It in all started in high school for Jane Sanders; a drinking problem affected every aspect of her life. Now for the past 36 years she's been sober and wants to prevent any kind of substance abuse with teenagers. "For me to keep what I've been given …
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Alcohol, drug abuse factors leading to probation
WALKER — Alcohol and drug abuse appear to be major factors causing Cass County to need to offer probation for law offenders and to provide out of home placement services for children. Michele Piprude, Cass social services manager, and Jim Schneider, …
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Comment: High times brought down to earth – are drugs passé?
Fix the disconnect between the experience and the rhetoric and there is a chance of destigmatising drug use. But this too remains a problematic proposition. There remains uncertainty that if in destigmatising drugs we are condoning and normalising …
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Bay Village PTA's Parent Pledge to Fight Substance Abuse Draws Hundreds to

Bay Village PTA's parent pledge to fight substance abuse draws hundreds to
BAY VILLAGE, Ohio — More than 420 individuals and couples already have signed on to the Bay Village PTA's parent pledge to fight substance abuse. It's a promise never to condone alcohol or drug use by children, to become actively involved in children …
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Research Links Severe Mental Illness And Substance Use
By Sarah Peters. New data linking severe mental illness and substance use could lead to more effective and streamlined treatment options for clinicians and patients, according to a leading expert in psychiatry and addiction issues. The Washington …
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Spartanburg County Council approves of 0000 grant for substance abuse
The grant is part of an ongoing partnership between the S.C. Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services and S.C. Department of Social Services. The two agencies teamed up about two and a half years ago to create an option that would allow …
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Are There Any Skeletons in Leicestershire Police Cupboards, What Do You Think?

Question by Jack H: Are there any skeletons in Leicestershire Police cupboards, what do you think?
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If the British media want to slur the Portuguese authorities, perhaps they might want to look closer to home first.

20 December 2006, the BBC reports “Police officers in the East Midlands were convicted of criminal offences over four years on an average of nearly one a month, the BBC has learned. Figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show that 45 officers received convictions for 70 crimes from November 2002 to November 2006. Hundreds of others were fined for speeding or parking illegally. Supt Heather Long of Lincolnshire Police said officers who committed crimes were dealt with robustly. The figures from Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire show that 28 sexual offences, eight of driving after taking alcohol or drugs and five physical assaults were committed by police officers.

Differences Between US Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities That Do and Do

Differences Between US Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities That Do and Do
Those that offered such services were more likely than those that did not to treat clients with co-occurring disorders. Principal-components analysis reduced eight treatment approaches to two factors: psychosocial services and traditional substance …
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Less access to substance abuse facilities in South, Midwest
Janet R. Cummings of Emory University in Atlanta and colleagues used data from the 2009 National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services file and the 2011-12 Area Resource file to examine county-level substance use disorder facility availability, …
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Assessing and Diagnosing Substance Abuse Disorders Part 2