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Stunning Rise in Drug Deaths Puts New Focus on Treatment

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Stunning rise in drug deaths puts new focus on treatment
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Drug prevention and treatment services provided by the Boston Public Health Commission would be folded into the new Office of Recovery Services. The new office, in turn, would concentrate on helping addicts … The state Bureau of Substance Abuse …
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Poison Drummer Spits Some Venom
Filed under: preventing alcohol abuse

… that leaves singer/reality show participant Bret Michaels, bassist Bobby Dall or guitarist C.C. Deville — who took a five-year sabbatical from the band from 1991-96 amid substance abuse issues — as the member who is preventing the tour from …
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More than 81000 children have a parent in prison in state
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Alcohol Abuse: The Importance of a Robust Drugs and Alcohol Policy

The importance of a robust drugs and alcohol policy
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Employers cannot shy away from the issue of workplace drug and alcohol abuse. Joanna Lennon takes a look at why the police cannot tackle it on their own and need employers’ help.
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Images of Alcohol Abuse: Two Pictures Emerge of Priest Accused of Assaulting Altar Boy

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Two pictures emerge of priest accused of assaulting altar boy
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"He used that position of authority first to gain access and then to maintain silence," Kemp told the jury, adding that despair about the experience drove the boy to attempt suicide at age 11 and later abuse drugs and alcohol and pingpong in and out of …
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Nuns fail to stop court action on alleged rape
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Her life has been severely affected by her experience, she changed from being a happy normal child who liked school to one who became self-destructive, left school early and developed alcohol, medication and relationship problems, it is claimed. She …
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Psychotherapy turns to horses to help people open up
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Alcohol Abuse Campaigner Caught Twice Over Limit – Scotsman

Alcohol abuse campaigner caught twice over limit – Scotsman
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Scotsman

Alcohol abuse campaigner caught twice over limit
Scotsman
A FORMER alcohol misuse campaigner who was found drunk behind the wheel of her car twice in the space of three weeks was spared a jail term yesterday. Eileen McArthur, a former senior planning officer for Focus on Alcohol Angus, was caught driving 

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Boomers ‘turning to booze and drugs’ – NEWS.com.au
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Boomers 'turning to booze and drugs'
NEWS.com.au
Many older people are using drugs and alcohol to self-medicate and deal with the stress and isolation of ageing, the report found. With many drug and alcohol abuse programs focused on treating the young, new programs tailored are needed to help older 
Baby-boomer drug and alcohol warningBBC News
Loneliness blamed for rise in elderly's alcohol and drug abuseThe Times (subscription)

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Alcohol Abuse: State Should Not Encourage More Alcohol Consumption – Bellingham Herald

State should not encourage more alcohol consumption – Bellingham Herald
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State should not encourage more alcohol consumption
Bellingham Herald
Although there has been an alarming increase in the consumption of deadly and addictive drugs in the United States, it is a legal and socially acceptable drug — alcohol — that is most widely abused and commonly linked to social problems. There's no 

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What Is RADD?

What is RADD?


1800 college students die nationwide every year from alcohol related incidents, and over 75% of those deaths are vehicle related. Sometimes this gets ignored…

 

IT Upgrades Bolster PDMP In Fight Against Opioid Misuse
Filed under: national institute on alcohol abuse

To improve timely access to, and use of, PDMP information, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and The MITRE Corp.—a nonprofit … was at risk for abuse. The …
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Author Michael Moss Offers Taste of 'Salt, Sugar, Fat' in Talk at UCSB
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Dr. Nora Volcow at the National Institute on Drug Abuse looked at the brain response to food. She saw the response to high sugar and fat foods and patterns of compulsive uptake. Some similarity to tobacco, alcohol and narcotics. But one important …
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