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Residential Hospital in Michigan to Help Meth Users Without Health Insurance Quit?

Question by John M: Residential hospital in Michigan to help meth users without health insurance quit?
My daughter, who’s 18, has fallen in with some meth users. She told me she tried it once but I think she’s using it regularly. She barely sleeps or eats, and she seems to… Continue reading

Letter: NJ Access to Drug Treatment Not Equitable

Letter: NJ access to drug treatment not equitable
Over the course of the previous 10 years, my parents sent me to eight inpatient and outpatient treatment programs. Most were out of state and many were well-known and highly reputable, and required out-of-pocket payments for the entire length of stay.
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Positive Mantoux, Child Care center…HELP!!!!?

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Question by LeAnn S: positive mantoux, child care center…HELP!!!!?
I have a history of negative mantoux tests, decades. In mid-August I had a negative mantoux, and then last week I had a mantoux test for another job. I had immediate intense itching, eyes burning, scratchy, developed hives on my neck on the car ride home. I have gone to an infectious disease dr, they did AFB cultures, when can I get the results? My current job, started in September is at a daycare center, w/ +/-100 children and >100 families involved. Employees are not required to have mantoux tests in child care centers in MN. I am very concerned someone is spreading TB at the child care center, but the health dept. is not!! I have had… Continue reading

California Teen Substance Abuse Treatment – a Father’s Message to Center for Discovery

California Teen Substance Abuse Treatment – A Father’s Message to Center for Discovery — The father of a client at the Center for Discovery teen substance abuse treatment center discusses the team at Center for Discovery and how they help. Center…


Stroke Risks Increases 700 Percent After Cocaine Use
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Are There Free Drug Rehab Facilities/programs in Georgia?

Question by holli08: Are there free drug rehab facilities/programs in Georgia?
My dad seems to be addicted to Xanax. He is currently in jail for a couple of things that happened last week after taking 12 Xanax in a day (we believe). I believe that he is probably… Continue reading

Vt. Gov. to Substance Abuse Treatment Program

Vt. gov. to substance abuse treatment program
Peter Shumlin will be holding a press conference in Burlington on the expansion of an early intervention and treatment program for young adults at risk of alcohol and drug abuse. The event will be held at 11:15 Friday at the Community Health Center.… Continue reading

Why Do People Say Alcholism Is a Disease ?

Question by Dee: Why do people say alcholism is a disease ?
this kinda upsets me , because a disease is something that you have no control over that your body dose on it’s own , you have the choice to purchase alchol , you have the choice to go… Continue reading

1 Week, 3 Dead: Suspected Heroin Overdoses Appear to Tighten Drug's Grip

1 week, 3 dead: Suspected heroin overdoses appear to tighten drug's grip
The heroin epidemic claiming the lives of young adults from the Lower Hudson Valley and across the nation is continuing despite a crackdown on suppliers and increased efforts to warn users of the drug's deadly effects. This week… Continue reading

In SW Pa, Concern About Gains in Scrip Drug Abuse

In SW Pa, concern about gains in scrip drug abuse
"I think we're in a culture in which everything gets fixed — there is no level of uncomfortableness that we think we should have to endure," said Elaine Stano, treatment specialist with the Fayette County Drug and Alcohol Commission, referring… Continue reading

What Is Drug Rehab…..?

Question by : What is drug rehab…..?
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Answer by patricia
It’s a place where people go who have a dependency on psychoactive substances such as alcohol,prescription drugs,and street drugs such as cocaine,heroin,amphetamines,to get clean or break their dependency on these drugs
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