Giving Back: Centerstone’s Recovery Engagement Center
Giving Back: Centerstone’s Recovery Engagement Center – The Recovery Engagement Center is a community-based hub for addiction service information. The center is staffed by local volunteers and offers addiction information and support to individuals, and their family and friends, who are striving to attain and sustain recovery from the use of alcohol and other chemicals. The Recovery Engagement Center meets the comprehensive needs of those in our community. It offers tailored, holistic care and recovery supportive services, helping people not only recover from addiction but also obtain healthcare, housing, employment, peer support, and addictions treatment. We are bringing together professionals and volunteers from community agencies within an innovative treatment approach called Recovery Oriented System of Care. For more information, please visit: centerstone.org Video by Devon Kirkpatrick http
Russell Brand Tells MPs Drug Addiction Should Be Treated as Illness
Russell Brand Tells MPs Drug Addiction Should Be Treated As Illness – Comedian Russell Brand has told MPs on the Home Affairs Select Committee addiction should be treated as an illness instead of a crime. The 36-year-old who said he had beaten a heroin addiction which saw him arrested a dozen times, blamed his drug problems on emotional and psychological difficulties. Society should not “discard people, write them off on methadone and leave them on the sidelines” and should exercise more “love and compassion”, he argued.
Illicit drugs 'can speed up psychosis'
Pharmacy Robberies High in Indiana
Pharmacy Robberies High in Indiana – Pharmacy Robberies High in Indiana
Indiana Twp. OK's budget; tax rate to be determined
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Highlights of next year's budget include $ 2.1 million for capital improvements, $ 220,000 for sewer districts, $ 4,407 for the K-9 fund and $ 30,735 for the Drug Abuse Resistance Education fund. Anderson said supervisors approved an increase of $ 205,000 …
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Guest column: The scary gateway for revival of heroin
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Dr. Phil Family: Admitting to Drug Abuse
Dr. Phil Family: Admitting to Drug Abuse – Subscribe to the Dr. Phil YouTube Channel: bitly.com LIKE us on Facebook: bitly.com Follow us on Twitter: bitly.com It’s been six months since Dr. Phil’s last meeting with 23-year-old Alexandra — is she finally ready to tell the truth? From years of lying to failing to disclose drug use to doctors during her pregnancy and her battle to regain custody of her children, the troubled mom has had a rollercoaster experience with Dr. Phil. Now hear her shocking admissions! Is she still using drugs? Does she speak with her family? Just how far back do the lies go? Catch up on the absolute latest! For more visit drphil.com This video will show you: HOW TO talk to family HOW TO deal with drug abuse HOW TO discuss a problem
Teen Drug Facts
Teen Drug Facts – Teen drug abuse statistics
Glens Falls man headed to prison for drug conviction
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Alexander L. Perryman Jr., 45, was found to have a package of suboxone, a drug used to treat opiate addicts, without a prescription when he was arrested by State Police during a June traffic stop in Queensbury. Perryman tried to evade troopers by …
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2012: the year in data, journalism (and charts)
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