Housing professionals must do more to help ex-armed forces find stability
Mental health conditions are increasingly common among soldiers, as is drug and alcohol addiction, debt and family breakdown. All these factors can contribute to housing difficulties. I work with hundreds of veterans in the … We pull together …
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Treatment centers lack funding to help drug addiction
… to help drug addiction. PRESTONSBURG, Ky. (WYMT) – Officials say prescription drug abuse is leading the drug epidemic. … "I'm getting them off the street and I'm getting the off the roadway, but I'm really not helping them. We actually do need …
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Guest Viewpoint: Ex-inmates need social support after prison
Often, a lack of support, stability and proper medical or mental health care has lead them down a path of drugs, theft, violence or other crime, landing them behind bars. Most of these former inmates are uneducated, unskilled, without family supports …
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