Drug Abuse and Recovery

Drug Abuse and Recovery

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Heroin Addiction Hits Suburban Teens Hard. by usnewsandworldreport 207,061 views. Kristen Delgado, 18, talks about overdosing on heroin, the double life of heroin addiction, and her realizations about what heroin and drug treatment may hold. Read more …
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Morgan's Corner: Learning about Drug Court options

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It has the added benefit of saving taxpayers the $ 37,000-a-year cost of incarcerating an individual, an average additional cost of $ 14,600-a-year to pay for substance abuse treatment for Drug Court enrollees, and the average $ 2,300 per individual to …
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Central Mass. communities to get drugabuse grants

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The money is from a federal Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant. It will set up an initiative called the Massachusetts Opioid Abuse Prevention Collaborative Program, which will help create policies and practices to prevent overdoses …
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Addiction Relapse Might Be Thwarted By Turning Off Brain Trigger

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This could be a revolution in treatment approaches for addiction, in terms of erasing unwanted memories and thereby manipulating the brain triggers that are so problematic for people with addictions.” The other co-authors of the paper are Feng Liu, PhD …
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