ODRC director supports local treatment for drug addicts
Tom Stotts, chief probation officer, said it will provide guidance for clients on any medications used to recover from addiction. The court also will cater to first-time drug offenders to get treatment without felonies on their record. Judge Jim Slagle … Read more on Marion Star

Prop. 47 could leave counties scrambling for drug treatment funds
The passage of Proposition 47 could leave San Francisco and other counties scrambling to make up the state money they used to receive for successfully treating rather than imprisoning low-level drug and property crime offenders, law enforcement … Read more on SFGate

Shia LaBeouf complying with drug treatment
“Transformers” star Shia LaBeouf is complying with his drug treatment program and should see charges dismissed stemming from his Broadway breakdown, a judge said Tuesday. LaBeouf, 28, pleaded guilty in September to disorderly conduct, a violation, … Read more on New York Daily News

NIH medical research funding is vital in Louisiana and across the nation: Dr …
LSU Health New Orleans research programs address some of the most important health issues today — cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, childhood obesity, Alzheimer's disease, stroke and substance abuse. Recent discoveries made by our faculty … Read more on The Times-Picayune – NOLA.com

From jail cell to voting booth, ex-prostitutes and drug addicts find a voice …
"I've never voted in my life," the 30-year-old Louisiana native said with a shrug. "I don't even understand politics." Fisher came to Houston five years … Those who do are moved to a "tank" at the jail where they all live, and where specialists visit … Read more on Houston Chronicle

Fighting an Epidemic With Hands Tied
Organizing workers in West Africa has been a problem. Credit Daniel Berehulak for … Although there are currently no drugs or vaccines approved in the United States to treat or prevent Ebola, health officials have used several experimental drugs in … Read more on New York Times

L.A. County backs laws allowing access to experimental drugs for the …
“Terminally ill patients should not have to navigate the FDA's bureaucratic process to access a drug and treatment that may help save their life,” Antonovich, who is in Washington, D.C., and did not attend today's board meeting, said in a statement … Read more on MyNewsLA.com

New inpatient addiction treatment center launched by Community Hospital Long …
The Partial Hospitalization/Intensive Outpatient Program provides daily intensive therapy for patients who are suffering from both addiction and a mental illness. This occurrence of a dual diagnosis is high. According to the National Alliance on Mental … Read more on Orange County Breeze

Update for the practicing pathologist: The International Consultation On …
In 1999, the WHO, maintaining papilloma and PUNLMP as diagnostic categories, re-appropriated the labels of Grade I, Grade II, and Grade III urothelial carcinoma,9 but used them to label lesions defined by criteria different from those of the 1973 WHO … Read more on Nature.com

Investigational HCV Combo Delivers in Differing Groups
The researchers conducting the so-called C-SWIFT trial also looked at 6-week and 8-week courses of treatment for harder-to-cure cirrhotic genotype 1 HCV patients. … moderator Michael Fried, MD, director of the University of North Carolina Liver … Read more on MedPage Today

For Returning Veterans Suffering From Both Mental Health and Substance …
The Welcome Back Veterans Dual Diagnosis Program integrates both mental health treatment with substance abuse services to veterans and their families free of charge. … Established in 2012 as the first of its kind in New York City, the Steven and … Read more on Newswise (press release)

Barry A. Hazle Jr., Atheist, Wins Nearly Million In Settlement Over Faith …
Barry A. Hazle Jr., 46, served time for a conviction of methamphetamine possession in 2007. As a condition of his parole, he was enrolled in a drug treatment program where participants were required to acknowledge a "higher power," according to the … Read more on Huffington Post

Rehab was right decision for Abraham
League sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter that between the time of Abraham's DUI arrest and his return to the Cardinals, Abraham spent some time in a rehab facility. Abraham has a problem with alcohol, and he's getting help. And that's why Cardinals … Read more on ESPN (blog)

The Rise of Beefcake Yoga
Diamond Dallas Page, a former W.W.E. wrestler, leading a yoga session in his home outside Atlanta. Credit Amy Lombard for The New … His use of pills, alcohol and cocaine, once recreational, turned into feverish addictions. He became depressed. He and … Read more on New York Times

Tiny babies have big dreams at a NICU unit in Atlanta
… Question Of The Day: Tuesday · Snowbirds and their money return to South Florida · Gun range that sells alcohol opens for business · One man dead after overnight shooting in Boyton Beach · Former Orlando Magic star Dwight Howard investigated for … Read more on WPEC

Detox Afghan – style : Drug addicts chained up at shrine for 40 DAYS in bid to …
Chained to the wall with both arms and legs shackled tightly and just a meagre portion of bread for sustenance, you'd be forgiven for thinking that these men were incarcerated for some heinous criminal act. But these men aren't criminals, this is … Read more on Daily Mail

A jail by another name: China labor camps now drug detox centers
New York-based Human Rights Watch estimates more than 60 percent of the 160,000 people in labor camps at the start of the year were there for drug offenses. Those people were unlikely to see any change in their treatment, it said. "The drug detox … Read more on Reuters

Letter: Roseburg veteran wanted to detox
On Nov. 4, 2014, my husband, Jerry Sofranko, took his life. Jerry was battling prescription drugs: methadone, oxycodone, mood and stress drugs prescribed for years by the Roseburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center. These prescribed pain medications … Read more on NRToday.com

NY couple: Son almost died from Botox treatment
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has not approved Botox to treat spasms in kids, so the treatment is called "off-label," the Drakes said. After the first injections failed, the doctor recommended a second, larger dose. Lori Drake recalled Thursday … Read more on BurlingtonFreePress.com

NY / Region|Following Her Mother's Example, in Addiction and Then in Sobriety
She was first hired to be a delivery driver but was later taught butchering skills. The company closed in 2009, she said. During that stretch, Ms. Gurley's mother entered an inpatient drug rehabilitation program in New York City. Once her mother became … Read more on New York Times

Father, son who ran NY drug treatment centers face fraud charges
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A father and son who ran New York City substance abuse clinics were accused on Wednesday of stealing tax money meant to treat addicts and using it to fund a lavish lifestyle that included luxury cars. Alan Brand and his son, Jason … Read more on Yahoo News