Middlebury center is fourth in state to distribute emergency kits for opioid …
Bankrolled at $ 50,000 for year one, the program is already up and running at the Howard Center in Burlington, the Good Neighbor Health Clinic in White River Junction, and the West Ridge Center for Addiction Recovery in Rutland, locations where free … Read more on vtdigger.org

Pike County lawyer: Cure for substance crimes needs personal touch
Just across the border in New York, Orange County has a drug court that gives nonviolent offenders with first-time misdemeanor drug-related crimes a chance to clear their record by going through a rehab program and remaining drug-free for a year. The … Read more on Pocono Record

Cafe turns coffee into changed lives
The cafe, at Seventh and H streets in downtown Sacramento, is run by volunteers and people in recovery from drug or alcohol abuse. The proceeds … Clean & Sober is a registered nonprofit spun off the larger Loaves & Fishes homeless support program. Read more on Sacramento Bee

Founders of defunct drug rehab program involved in teen drug war
In suburban neighborhoods throughout Florida, behind neatly manicured lawns, were host homes for a controversial drug rehabilitation program called STRAIGHT, Inc. Jason Fielder, who was sent to program in 1987 when he was just 14 years old, says the … Read more on First Coast News

Arizona Long Term Drug and Alcohol Treatment Program 'Springs' Into Action
Back2Basics Outdoor Adventures is a niche drug and alcohol rehabilitation program geared toward young male addicts that encompasses various forms of life-skill building such as wilderness therapy — intensive hiking, camping, kayaking, Kung Fu, surfing … Read more on PR Web (press release)

The Dauphin County Drug Court holds rehab graduation ceremony
Authorities in Dauphin County held a graduation ceremony for 5 participants who successfully finished an intensive drug and alcohol rehab program. The ceremony also coincides with National Drug Court Month. Officials created the program in 2008 to … Read more on FOX43.com

New York Moves To Shut Troubled Rehab Clinic
When ProPublica first wrote about the Brooklyn drug rehab program New York Service Network (NYSN) last September, the outpatient facility only six months earlier had won a fresh license renewal from the state agency that oversees such clinics. Within … Read more on Mintpress News

Owners, other key employees should be included in the substance-abuse policy
At a time when more and more people are noticing the difference in the way the league treats players and owners, maybe the time has come to require all owners, along with other key team and league personnel, to participate in the program. “[If] it's … Read more on NBCSports.com

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Women's Treatment Centre Earns Accreditation
Premier and National Security Minister Michael Dunkley today [May 23] revealed that the Women's Treatment Centre has received CARF Accreditation in the categories of Community Housing: Alcohol and Other Drugs/Addictions [Adult] and Residential … Read more on Bernews

Court Conversations: Raleigh Day Report Center offers service, correction …
For example, if the criminal charge is related to alcohol or drug use, or if the assessment indicates substance abuse or dependence, the defendant will be afforded substance abuse treatment. The Day Report Center will administer randomly scheduled drug … Read more on Beckley Register-Herald

Addiction is a complex disease
A recent study by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse indicated that there are 2.3 million inmates in American prisons; 65 percent meet the standard criteria for drug and alcohol addiction and abuse. The study further indicated that … Read more on Port Times Record

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford photographed at rehab facility; clinic confirms he's in …
New photos show the confessed crack-smoking mayor walking around the grounds of GreeneStone Clinic Muskoka, an Ontario residential facility that specializes in drug and alcohol addiction treatment. On Friday, GreeneStone confirmed that Ford was a … Read more on New York Daily News

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)

A Freewheeling Pursuit of Spontaneity on Film
Reviewing the film for The New York Times, Jeannette Catsoulis described it as “a profoundly awkward riff on dysfunction that's uneventful but not unrewarding,” adding, “It's the small moments that win you over.” Photo. Sheila Etxeberría and Ed Ryan in … Read more on New York Times

'I was a vice cop… and a meth addict'
By day, she conducted investigations into big-time meth dealers and partnered up with the DEA, flying on helicopters looking for illegal drug activity. But nobody knew that she had a secret — she was a meth addict herself. Moore's memoir, “Shards … Read more on New York Post

Interview: Jonestown survivor Laura Johnston Kohl
In York, Pa., earlier this year, they asked me what the Black Panther Party was. I don't think anyone ever asked me that. And I assumed all these years that people … didn't ask and might not have known that. In a way, I use the questions—especially … Read more on Nooga.com