Dubai’s Drug Rehab Programs Takes a Step Forward.
Dubai’s drug rehab programs takes a step forward. — The UAE’s zero tolerance policy on drug use is well document – and typically results in a minimum four year jail sentence. But what happens to all those peop…
A letter to the Governor for Luther T. Jessie, Jr. (Community Voices)
[rewrite]His professional career focused on serving as a certified addiction specialist. He focused on assessing and managing mental health and substance abuse treatment services for criminal justice populations, including violent offender re-entry. For the …[/rewrite]
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How Can You Find an ONline Mentor?
Question by Emma: How Can You Find An ONline Mentor?
[rewrite]I am 14 and I have 8 mental illnesses. I struggle with eating disorders, cutting, and suicidal ideation. I often feel so alone, because my parents don’t love me. They tell me how worthless I am, and once even told me to just go kill myself. . . It hurts. I don’t have friends. I isolate myself. But, I really want a mentor figure in my life. Is there a program that matches adults online with struggling youth, like myself?
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Why Alcohol and Drug Addiction Treatments Fail – Experts Say
Why Alcohol And Drug Addiction Treatments Fail – Experts Say — http://www.truthofaddiction.com Alcohol and drug addiction treatments have found not to be based on science or evidence. The best methods for treating addict…
Danish street magazine pays for drug addicts' next hit
[rewrite]Danish drug addicts have begun selling a magazine launched to help them fund their habit, in the hope that they will turn away from prostitution or crime as a way to pay for their next hit. The drug and culture magazine, Illegal! is the brainchild of …[/rewrite]
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Gov't: Most School Discipline Need Not Mean Court
Gov't: Most school discipline need not mean court
[rewrite]Holder said the problem often stems from well intentioned "zero-tolerance" policies that too often inject the criminal justice system into the resolution of problems. ALAN DIAZ, FILE — AP Photo … Holder announced last summer that he was instructing …[/rewrite]
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ISSUE 83: Dear Charlie
[rewrite]Well, I doubt you want to hear my problems, but I'm the type of person that has to tell someone my problems and have them help me solve them. … For me, he was part of the landscape of family road trips in the late 1970s, lonely days driving with my …[/rewrite]
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The Exchange: Addiction and You
The Exchange: Addiction and You — The need for syringe exchange services is not restricted to the inner city. Syringe exchanges are patronized by people from all walks of life. Here’s how you…
Anger over rehab project
[rewrite]Those plans involve demolishing the 140-year-old Public School 22 on Second Street, which has been vacant and deteriorating for decades, to construct a 24-bed all-male facility to treat addiction. "If not this project now, then what and when? … Susan …[/rewrite]
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Report: Virginia's Justice System Is Expensive, Ineffective, Unfair
Report: Virginia's Justice System Is Expensive, Ineffective, Unfair
[rewrite]“African-Americans are represented at high rates at all levels of Virginia's criminal justice system,” said Bradford. “ Whites and Blacks use illicit drugs at about the same rate. But, the urban street peddlers are usually Blacks who are arrested at a …[/rewrite]
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No Bond for Mother Accused of Drug Use that Led to Baby's Death
[rewrite]Drymond was taken to a hospital, but her unborn child was dead by the time he was delivered. Under Virginia code, there is no law that holds a woman accountable for the death of her stillborn child, even if illegal activity led to the death. Drymond is …[/rewrite]
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