Poor health, depression and substance abuse are leading causes for those who …
To improve the coordination of resources across agencies, the county has established the Coordinating Council on Suicide Prevention, according to Dan Hicks, prevention services manager for Ventura County's Alcohol and Drug Programs Division. The group … Read more on Camarillo Acorn

IPO Preview: ACC Holdings (ACC)
ACC believes it is a leading provider of inpatient substance abuse treatment services for individuals with drug and alcohol addiction. As of August 31, 2014, ACC operated six substance abuse treatment facilities located throughout the United States … Read more on Seeking Alpha (registration)

Christie: The War on Drugs Failed
Instead, those types of drug offenders must submit to mandatory, inpatient treatment. … But, eventually, the friend's addiction to alcohol and prescription painkillers led to a divorce, the loss of his job, the loss of his driver's license and … Read more on Guardian Liberty Voice

Letter: UMass failed to treat addiction as a disease
I currently work as a guidance counselor at William J. Ostiguy High School, an alternative high school in Boston for students in recovery for drug and/or alcohol addiction. Ostiguy … Logan's health and addiction were neglected and his life was viewed … Read more on The Massachusetts Daily Collegian

Gisele Pollack, Broward DUI Judge, Fights to Save Her Career
Subsequently you took a leave of absence from the Court and you enrolled in an inpatient substance abuse treatment. 5. On May 1, 2014 you walked away from the inpatient substance abuse program. You drove from the inpatient substance abuse program … Read more on New Times Broward-Palm Beach (blog)

Editorial: Lacking substance
Improving access to substance abuse treatment is a laudable goal but let's face it — this is law-making at its laziest, and sadly par for the course on Beacon Hill. Of particular concern are the new mandates that require insurers to cover inpatient … Read more on Boston Herald

Aldon Smith Receives Nine-Game Suspension for Off-Field Problems
A statement Friday from the league said Smith had violated the N.F.L.'s substance-abuse and personal-conduct policies. Smith will not be eligible to return until Nov. 10. The 24-year-old Smith, one of the N.F.L.'s top pass rushers, missed five games … Read more on New York Times

American Addiction Centers Named to Inc. 500 List Recognition for Three-Year …
American Addiction Centers, a leading national provider of inpatient substance abuse treatment services for individuals with drug and/or alcohol addiction, has been named to the Inc. 500 List of America's Fastest Growing Private Companies. The company … Read more on DigitalJournal.com

Robin Williams' death highlights challenge of treating severe depression
Dr. Harry Croft, a psychiatrist and addiction expert and chief of CNS Trials at the Clinical Trials of Texas, says the phrase suggests to him that Williams wasn't actually planning to visit a rehab center for addiction but was instead seeking help at a … Read more on CBS News

Adolescent substance abuse centers receive grants
prescription drugs The grants will fund comprehensive adolescent substance abuse treatment programs, both expanding treatment beds at existing facilities and creating new adolescent treatment programs with the full continuum of care, including … Read more on The Lane Report

Local hospitals want piece of B windfall
Invited partners include St. Elizabeth, Rome Memorial, Upstate Cerebral Palsy and Conifer Park, an inpatient substance abuse treatment facility in Schenectady. The Mohawk Valley Health System – Faxton St. Luke's and St. Elizabeth — and the Utica … Read more on Utica Observer Dispatch

Prescription drug use, abuse
Deaths from prescription painkiller overdoses, many in combination with other prescription drugs like benzodiazepines, quadrupled in the United States to 16,651 in 2010 from 4,030 in 1999, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention … Read more on Worcester Telegram

Experts: 'killer heroin' may be something else
He's a co-founder of SARPH Pa., a substance abuse recovery program for pharmacists and pharmacy students and a marketing director for Gaudenzia, a nonprofit drug treatment center. To understand why a potentially deadly kind of heroin would attract … Read more on The Intelligencer

Alcoholism & Substance Abuse Counselor Training Now Online at Cazenovia …
Cazenovia College logo. Cazenovia College is one of only two colleges in New York State approved to offer the 350 hours of Credentialed Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Counselor education and training completely in an online format. Cazenovia, NY (PRWEB … Read more on PR Web (press release)

Question by ImHigh: Would it be more/less expensive to reduce enforcement of drug laws and provide medical treatment for addicts?
The drug war has been an utter failure, spending TRILLIONS of American dollars and lasting longer than any other war (http://www.drugsense.org/cms/wodclock). One of the alternatives that has been brought up recently is shifting the focus from enforcing drug laws and putting addicts in severely overcrowded prisons, to treating addicts like medical patients. This makes sense because physical addiction is an obstacle that rarely turns out good for the patient. The only question that I really see holding this back is money. Would the benefits of spending less on drug enforcement and imprisonment supersede the cost of providing medical treatment?

Whatever your opinion is, I’d like to know! 🙂

“We’d really love for the president to simply acknowledge that this is a serious issue worth debating and not embarrass himself again by trying to turn the failed drug war – which kills thousands of people a year – into some kind of Cheech and Chong joke,” LEAP spokesman Tom Angell

Best answer:

Answer by Jim
Less.

Wanting to have less Government should start with removing those laws and agencies that spend the most money and take away the most freedom.

Give your answer to this question below!

BEACON HILL BRIEFING: Drug abuse gets sharp look
Section 35 of Chapter 123 of the General Laws of Massachusetts allows the courts to commit an individual whose alcohol or drug addiction puts themselves or others at risk to inpatient substance abuse treatment for a period of up to 90 days. The … Read more on Wicked Local Kingston

Region sees rise in heroin use
Law enforcement, substance abuse treatment centers, even coroners, are seeing a trend already set in other parts of the country: heroin use is on the rise. “If any community thinks heroin is not available on its streets, it is looking for … The … Read more on The Southern

Herbal cannabis not recommended for rheumatology patients
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Sober living homes offer hope, support to recovering addicts
Hansen House's residential treatment houses are licensed by the state Department of Health and Human Services, offer treatment and are staffed 24 hours a day, every day, Hansen said. The treatment center Hendricks House in Vineland manages them, she … Read more on Press of Atlantic City

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Heath Ledger & Jane Doe: Every Death Matters
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Law is one way of forcing addicts into treatment
The judge orders her/him to a licensed inpatient substance abuse treatment facility, such as the Women's Addiction Treatment Center (WATC) facility in New Bedford, the Men's Addiction Treatment Center (MATC) in Brockton or another community treatment … Read more on Capecodonline