What It Felt Like to Be a 'Suspicious' Black Teenager
We've all had our encounters; we've all been in situations where being black becomes synonymous with being suspicious, where demanding rights and respectful treatment can be seen as resisting law enforcement. So after the grand jury's … The cop had … Read more on Wall Street Journal

The Family Drug Addict and Thanksgiving
I've done the deal with my family drug addict. We've been through the phoney-baloney-hyped-up uselessness of the most expensive treatment center in Oklahoma. It did no good, largely because it catered to its privileged clients and went in for touchy … Read more on Patheos (blog)

High Drug Costs, Obamacare, Putting Squeeze on Private Cancer Specialists
And, adding to the problem is Obamacare, which has prompted many patients to buy inadequate levels of insurance in the marketplace for the treatment they need, and that places an extra burden on the patients and their doctors. Many doctors say they … Read more on WOAI.com

Alabama social worker arrested for driving down I-65 smoking crack with a …
According to the Hoover Police Department, the manager of a substance abuse treatment facility in Birmingham was caught driving down Interstate 65 smoking a crack pipe with a 5-year-old in the vehicle. Bari Joy Williams, a 44-year-old Gardendale … Read more on Yellowhammer News

Sara Wirkkala opens private mental health counseling service
ASTORIA — Sara Wirkkala, MSW, recently set up shop in Astoria, offering a variety of counseling services, including mental health and addiction services. Wirkkala is a licensed clinical social worker and certified alcohol and drug counselor. “Mostly I … Read more on Daily Astorian

'Helping a brother'
He hooks up those in crisis with counseling services, too. His fledgling organization is a work … Over the next decade and a half, Torres would at times battle demons — alcohol and drugs, flying off the handle and getting into scrapes. One of those … Read more on Eagle-Tribune

Sturgis police officer charged with being 'super drunk,' given 2-week suspension
sheriffcarnew.jpg An off-duty Sturgis police officer involved in a crash on South 44th Street in Kalamazoo County is facing charges of operating a motor vehicle with a high blood-alcohol content of 0.17 percent or higher and operating a motor vehicle … Read more on MLive.com

UMF announces five-year master's program in partnership with USM
Graduates of the five-year program can qualify for state licensing for counseling and national certification for rehabilitation counseling, making them highly employable in many settings, including at alcohol and drug treatment facilities, counseling … Read more on Lewiston Sun Journal

Watertown Woman Sentenced For Selling Heroin
"I've gotten several calls already in the last two weeks of people begging me to help their kids because the insurance companies won't pay for them to go to rehab until they've failed twice. They have to fail twice in out-patient. What other chronic … Read more on WWNY TV 7

Latest Best Drug Rehabilitation Blog Post Looks at 12 Tips to Choose the Best …
In its latest blog post, Best Drug Rehabilitation, which offers treatment programs and believes that having family close by during a stay in rehab can make a big difference in whether or not the process is successful, is highlighting 12 tips to help … Read more on Insurance News Net

Addicted to Rehab – Boyle's SAP inmates tell their tales of woe and redemption
… I am an addict.” Those eight words pepper 54-year-old prescription drug addict David Bascom conversations in group treatment, a sobering reminder of how teenage drinking and marijuana use spiraled into drug trafficking convictions. …… “I was … Read more on Central Kentucky News

Dope Sick With Mouths To Feed: The Struggles of American Women in Active …
“Never suggested that I should go to treatment.” she told me. “Never any of that, so I went to alternative school and got suspended from alternative school for doing drugs there too, and while I was suspended from school I ran away. After that, I got … Read more on Social Work Helper

Ex-Player Charged in Sale of Pills to Derek Boogaard
Two weeks before he died of an overdose in 2011, Derek Boogaard of the Rangers was excused from his substance-abuse rehabilitation in California and returned to New York. He drove to Long Island, as he had done many times in the months … After five … Read more on New York Times

Recovery Month speaker tells of journey from addiction to social work
It wasn't until she lost custody of her son and faced her second felony conviction that she entered recovery. McKenna, now a licensed social worker at the Rogers Memorial Hospital campus in West Allis and alcohol and drug abuse counselor, has been … Read more on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Kenton leaders: We must move faster to fight heroin
The greatest needs are for more in-patient beds and continued care for people in recovery, said Bonnie Hedrick, co-chair of the task force and coordinator for the NKY Agency for Substance Abuse Policy/Prevention Alliance. “In-patient programs in … Read more on Cincinnati.com

Resources scarce for teen addicts
Editor's note: This is the second in a Sunday series on the spread of drug addiction, including prescription pills, heroin and other opiates in Coweta County. The series takes a look at drug use, treatment programs – or the lack thereof – as well as … Read more on Newnan Times-Herald

What Goes on Inside an Intervention?
John Lloyd is a certified addiction specialist, interventionist, and certified in anger management and domestic violence intervention. John has worked in the drug and alcohol treatment field for over eleven years and is in long term recovery himself … Read more on PsychCentral.com (blog)

Drug–addicted mothers an 'epidemic' in W.Va.
Jordan, a behavioral health counselor, and Kosa, a social worker, both deal with drug-addicted mothers on a weekly basis at FamilyCare Health Centers in Putnam, Boone and Kanawha counties. They provide weekly programs for women … “We started treating … Read more on Charleston Gazette

State to test telehealth drug treatment program
PIERRE, S.D. — In an effort to get more treatment services to rural South Dakota, the Department of Social Services is exploring using telemedicine to help drug and alcohol abusers in remote parts of the state stay sober and out of prison, state … Read more on Centre Daily Times

Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records
Medical records (i.e., medical and social work reports generated in VA, State , local, or private medical treatment facilities or private physicians' offices indicating the medical history of a VA beneficiary, including diagnosis, treatment and nature … Read more on Insurance News Net

Alston & Bird | A&B Healthcare Week in Review, July 11, 2014
This guidance represents the FDA's current thinking regarding drug development for the treatment or prevention of NTDs, including clinical trial designs and internal review standards to support approval of drugs. … On July 8, 2014, FDA announced … Read more on Linex Legal (press release) (registration)