Substance Abuse Treatment Center Receives Award for Women’s Halfway House
Substance Abuse Treatment Center receives award for Women’s Halfway House – Brighton Center for Recovery is honored for building a new women’s halfway house at it’s substance abuse treatment center. The best drug and alcohol addictio…
Prison population, costs mounting
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Hob Bryan, D-Armory, said statistics show 38 percent of prison beds are taken up by offenders revoked from supervision for technical violations, but not for committing an additional crime. Bryan suggested technical … Texas officials said the contract …
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For-Profit Prisons Are Big Winners Of California's Overcrowding Crisis
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He's also negotiating with top Democratic lawmakers who hope to scale back the prison population over the next two years by bolstering funding for substance-abuse treatment programs, which are aimed at keeping more non-violent offenders out of prison.
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NJ Teens Engaging in Pill Popping Party Game [AUDIO]
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Forty-six percent of all admissions for treatment in New Jersey are for opiate and heroin addiction according to the latest statistics. Prescription pills are often a gateway drug that leads to heroin addiction. “Heroin addiction has significantly …
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New MUSC physician wants to transform treatment of sickle cell disease
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… of that, it's stigmatized. There's a lot of people out there who still inappropriately think it's a disease of drug seekers … which is the most inaccurate representation of sickle cell.” … The biggest problem is it becomes a Catch-22. So …
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