Illinois Sees No Vaccine Shortage as Flu Picks Up

Illinois sees no vaccine shortage as flu picks up

Filed under: drug treatment centers in illinois

Illinois Department of Public Health spokeswoman Melaney Arnold said Tuesday that almost 150 people in the state have been admitted to hospital intensive care units with the flu this season and six have died. Eight Chicago-area … Many drug stores …
Read more on Belleville News Democrat

Peorian expands personal battle of staying off drugs to cleaning up South …

Filed under: drug treatment centers in illinois

"It's a very miserable life to do drugs, living hell," she said. "Your home, there is no home. You live on the edge every day." Harris took a bus to Central Illinois Center for the Treatment of Addictions. She crawled through the door, and spent the …
Read more on Peoria Journal Star

Prosecuting a war against heroin

Filed under: drug treatment centers in illinois

His father was a drug user who got clean in the late 1960s and became a counselor and executive at the Gateway Foundation, one of the largest addiction treatment centers in Illinois. Yet even they didn't fully recognize their son's teenage substance abuse.
Read more on Chicago Tribune

What Should We Do About Marijuana Use?

Filed under: drug treatment centers in illinois

Nonviolent offenders should be diverted from prisons to treatment programs. The current federal “all use is abuse” should be replaced with a new drug policy that sets reasonable boundaries for marijuana use by establishing guidelines similar to those …
Read more on Blog for Iowa (blog)