substance abuse and mental health services administration

What Is a “detox” Diet?

Question by BURY YOUR DEAD: What is a “detox” diet? Best answer: Answer by Jerry MIts a diet that is aimed at ridding your body of toxins. Answer by serenityIt means more to eat or drink some things very healthy for you to get all of the bad toxins out of your body that you have either eaten or they were just placed in your body it is also used to make you feel better. What do you think? Answer below!   Read more... ...

Twin Cities, Minnesota Trying to Cope With Flood of Cheap, Pure Heroin

...  Cities, Minnesota trying to cope with flood of cheap, pure heroin SOURCE: Drug Abuse Warning Network, Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, accessed 9/12/2012. These weighted estimates of ED visits are based on a representative sample of … Read more on MinnPost.com (blog) Sadly there is no cure for windy politicians Oh, irony of ironies — neither our most senior education legislators nor the ruling party's youth wing, nor the leader of the opposition in the province, understands the difference between percentages and percentage points. And to think, they ...

Researchers Find That We Use Both Sides of Our Brain for Speech

Researchers find that we use both sides of our brain for speech We use both sides of our brain for speech, a finding by researchers at New York University and NYU Langone Medical Center that alters previous conceptions about neurological activity. The results, which appear in the journal Nature, also offer insights … Read more on News-Medical.net Jan. 8 wreck brings drug arrest Investigators arrived on scene to find a head-on collision which resulted in serious injury to Clark. Babb said Clark was transported to Atlanta Medical Center for treatment. “As investigators began to inventory Clark's vehicle before it was removed … Read more on The Citizen.com Read more... ...

SAC's Martoma Harvard-Expulsion Revealed as Trial Starts

...  Starts Martoma, 39, is charged with conspiracy and securities fraud for allegedly using inside information from two doctors supervising a clinical trial of a drug intended to treat Alzheimer’s disease to make $ 276 million for SAC in 2008. The jury of seven … Read more on Businessweek 92 drug overdose deaths in Westmoreland shatter last year's record Pennsylvania has the third-highest rate of heroin use in the nation, behind only California and Illinois, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The drug is cheap, potent and highly addictive, … Dr. Neil Capretto … Read more on WPXI Pittsburgh Read ...

Community Services for Jan. 12

...  OF ETOWAH COUNTY offers stress and anger management, domestic violence prevention and parenting classes for adults at the Robert Echols Family Success Center, 821 E. Broad St. The parenting classes are at 5 p.m. on Wednesdays. The … Read more on Gadsden Times Fighting addiction with a pill has potential for abuse, officials say Combined with traditional therapy, studies have shown that buprenorphine is as effective a tool as methadone in opiate addiction recovery, according to the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. However, unlike methadone … Read more on Zanesville Times Recorder Read ...

Police Say Synthetic Marijuana Makers Skirt Law to Sell Product Locally

...  say synthetic marijuana makers skirt law to sell product locally In 2011, nearly 23,000 hospital visits were reportedly linked to use of “bath salts,” a category of drugs that encompasses synthetic weed, a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration study shows. In Brockton, Shrand …. Dave Brennan … Read more on Taunton Daily Gazette Tags: mental health services, health services administration, substance abuse and mental health services administration ...

Damascus Project Hosts Annual Banquet, Seeks Funds for Rehab Center

...  Project hosts annual banquet, seeks funds for rehab center The Damascus Project has been working diligently over the last few years to build a faith-based addiction rehabilitation facility here in Dyersburg that would house 30 to 40 men and over a long-term program help them kick their addiction and become … Read more on State Gazette Fostoria treatment faciltiy scores more funding According to a national survey by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 23.5 million people aged 12 or older needed treatment for a drug or alcohol abuse problem in 2009. Of these numbers, 2.6 million actually received the … Read more on Review Times Read ...