heroin abuse

WBEZ: Puerto Rican Drug Addicts Sent to Chicago Likely Victims of Identity Theft

WBEZ: Puerto Rican Drug Addicts Sent To Chicago Likely Victims of Identity Theft A story by WBEZ and This American Life in April revealed that heroin abusers from Puerto Rico were being sent to unlicensed drug rehab programs in Chicago. The addicts were promised state-of-the-art treatment, but reporter Adriana Cardona Maguigad … Read more on Chicago Tonight | WTTW How crowded are private prisons in the West? He added that only a small fraction of Arizona's prisoners are enrolled in drug treatment programs, even though a large number suffer substance abuse problems. That means inmates are often no better off when they're released, increasing the likelihood … Read more on High Country News Read more... ...

Heroin No Longer Urban-Only Crisis

...  no longer urban-only crisis Now, however, use has been increasing at a rate that is alarming health and mental health workers, drug rehabilitation centers, police, lawmakers and public officials. According to Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services … Read more on TheDay.com Mountainside Treatment Center Tackles Sharp Rise in Connecticut Heroin Abuse Mountainside Treatment Center Tackles Sharp Rise in Connecticut Heroin Abuse. With heroin abuse an urgent health crisis that has Connecticut in its grip, the new detoxification program, Mountainside Detox, is being created to alleviate the mounting … Read more on PR Web (press release) Read ...

Springfield Alcohol Drug Rehab Announces Residential Treatment Expansion

...  Alcohol Drug Rehab Announces Residential Treatment Expansion Initially, people will come into drug treatment either on their own or at the urging of family members. The center understands how overwhelming an idea of getting clean and sober from drugs and alcohol for good can be. In our expanded program, the … Read more on Broadway World Heroin abuse spreads misery across America A local rehab facility has a six-month wait. … It remains a small part of America's drug problem; cocaine, Ecstasy, painkillers and tranquilizers are all used more, and the latest federal overdose statistics show that in 2010 the vast majority of … Read more on Daily Union Read ...

Jeff Gordon Treatment Room Opens at Children's Blood & Cancer Center at Dell

Jeff Gordon Treatment Room Opens At Children's Blood & Cancer Center At Dell … The Jeff Gordon treatment room — themed winning through teamwork — features custom graphics created by Red Eye Designs of Charlotte, NC, depicting Gordon's No. 24 Axalta Chevrolet SS making a pit stop at last month's race in Las Vegas. The room was … Read more on PaddockTalk This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories In Greenville, North Carolina, a Pitt County sheriff's detective was arrested last Monday for stealing drugs from a pharmacy and the sheriff's office prescription drug drop-off box. Detective Tyler Bryan had worked closely with doctors and a pharmacist … Read more on Drug War Chronicle Read more... ...

Alcohol Rehab San Diego CA

  Alcohol Rehab San Diego CA – http://alcoholrehabsandiegoca.com- he detoxification programs at California Addiction Network are targeted at San Diego residents and guarantee results that …   Cyberbully law proposed after girl's suicide Jim Beall, D-San Jose, center, left, and Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen, center right, listen in on Friday, March 7, 2014, in Saratoga, Calif. Audrie's Law is a … "To me, whether you rape someone or ply them with alcohol and then … Read more on U-T San Diego Read more... ...

Hoffman Death Comes Amid Rise in Heroin Abuse, Trafficking

...  Death Comes Amid Rise in Heroin Abuse, Trafficking Dr. Marvin Seppala, the chief medical officer at the Hazelden drug addiction treatment centers, said heroin and other opioids lend themselves to overdose and death because they directly act on the parts of the brain that control breathing. Erin Mulvey … Read more on Voice of America Neal Stucky 1934-2014 After several years there Neal took a position at Hazelden Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Center in Lindstrom as a credit manager, and he retired in 2000. Neal ...

Addictionologist MD

  Addictionologist MD – Addictionologist with 20 years experience treating addiction shares the results she is finding with the Brain Restoration + treatment.   CONNECTS AGAINST CRIME: Heroin Use Rising With recent crackdowns on prescription medicines, making them harder to obtain, most of these kids searching for a stronger high are turning to the cheaper Heroin. … Sam's parents checked him into rehab in Florida, which seemed to work for a while … Read more on KGAN TV Read more... ...