Crownsville detox center at risk of closing
Hope House in Crownsville helps, on average, about 1,500 drug and alcohol addicts get treatment, but because of a drop in Medicaid funding, that treatment is in serious jeopardy. Earlier this week, Anne Arundel County Executive Steve Schuh declared a … Read more on WBAL Baltimore

Punjab Politics: Millions wasted on Dharnas, while De-addiction Centers lie …
Out of the two Govt run centers, one is totally useless as in the absence of doctors there no addict could be admitted the staff told us that conditions had been like this for quite a while now. Whereas the main de-addiction centers in civil hospital … Read more on SikhSiyasat.Net

We Are Treating Heroin Addiction Wrong Even Though We Know Better …
Why heroin addiction treatment is stuck in a “scientific dark age.” Standard treatment for heroin addicts is not all that different today than it was decades ago: willpower over chemistry. It's a 12-step program. It's a rigid 30-day drug detox center … Read more on The Ocean Signal

Lauded for a Hard Look at Tough Topic
Phoenix House is one of the largest not-for-profit substance-abuse treatment centers in the U.S.. Through her time at HBO, Ms. Nevins has shepherded such projects as “Addiction,” a 14-part series that was given out as DVDs to guests such as Michael … Read more on Wall Street Journal

No one-stop solution for cocaine addiction
… it has no specific information how many cocaine addicts there are in this city. Health Canada statistics from 2011 indicate that 9.4 per cent of Canadians had used illicit drugs over the last year, with 0.9 per cent using cocaine or crack … Read more on Montreal Gazette

Work key to breaking jail cycle
That program includes guided meditation mindfulness training and may also include literacy, parenting, anger-management, and sex-offender treatment as well as substance-abuse treatment that's more about understanding what triggers behaviors and how … Read more on The Recorder

The Revolution at the Corner Drugstore
The response has largely come in the form of new hep-C medicines and pharmacy-benefit managers, or PBMs, a kind of quasi-insurance company that purchases medications in bulk from drug makers, negotiates prices and oversees patient drug plans. The … Read more on Wall Street Journal

A Prescription to End Drinking
New understanding of how alcohol affects the brain is prompting addiction experts to make a push for using medications to help people quit or cut down on excessive drinking. For years, treatment has meant 28 days of rehab or a 12-step program. Success … Read more on Wall Street Journal

Court program uses mindfulness
An article published in the American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse in 2009 found participation in mindfulness training in addiction treatment center environments was associated with a decrease in the likelihood of participants dropping out of such … Read more on Albuquerque Journal

Team works to reduce drug, alcohol use and abuse
Led by Alliance for Youth, a substance-abuse prevention team is working to reduce drug, alcohol and tobacco use and abuse by strategically targeting teens and adults using a mix of marketing, intervention and treatment. Timed with the holiday season … Read more on Great Falls Tribune

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

Ebola Virus: Nigerian Patients to Be Given Experimental Drug
Ebola victims in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos will receive an experimental drug called Nano Silver, the country's top health official said on Thursday, in a step that introduces a new untested treatment to the fight against an outbreak in several … Read more on Wall Street Journal

New Helpline in Savannah Assists Troubled Teens in Locating Drug and Alcohol …
Parents can also learn which teen treatment centers provide the best care for their adolescent's specific needs. Teenager treatment facilities are staffed with certified substance abuse professionals who utilize the latest methods of drug and alcohol … Read more on DigitalJournal.com

New Thinking About Ebola Treatments
Once such facilities exist, it should be possible to compare one group of patients given standard supportive care with another group given supportive care plus a drug that might help them. The World Health Organization is scheduled to hold a meeting in … Read more on New York Times

Question by blktan23: are drug laws unconstitutional?
This is kinda a backward Q. The sepreme court has said that abortions are constitutinally protected rights. People say because it is a “personal choice” and a “medical treatment” can drugs be considered the same thing? So if you have to be given an opportunity to have an abortion why cant you have to be given teh opportunity to take drugs.??

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Answer by Scott L
The drug laws have stood up in court for a long time. Don’t hold your breath on this argument going anywhere.

Tex………I am one of the good guys. Unless you can point out some heinous activity to contradict this then just live with it.

When you buy drugs from your dealer then you’re supporting him/her and their followers and their customers. When you buy drugs you support home invasion, robbery, burglary, motor vehicle B&Es, larcenies, and other lesser crimes. While some individual drug users may not steal to support their habit the drug trade is riddled with those that do. Look up the stats on the number of people that are in prison that admitt to being high and or drunk at the time of their criminal activity.

Keep off the grass man.

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FDA Accepts New Drug Application forSymplmed'sPrestalia® for the Treatment …
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Listen: New drug breakthrough in leukaemia treatment
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Drug Treatment Swept Up in Push for Medical-Records Sharing
Federal officials are proposing to ease 40-year-old restrictions on the release of information about patients' drug- and alcohol-abuse treatment, so their electronic medical records can be more easily used and shared. Federal law has long protected … Read more on Wall Street Journal