Getting Educated on 'Drug Courts'

Getting educated on 'drug courts'

Filed under: drug rehab treatment programs

Participants undergo substance abuse treatment; must submit to frequent, random, and observed drug testing; and are intensely supervised in drug court programs. If needed, participants also may undergo treatment for mental illness. Every multi …
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Advocates for nursing home reform push back against proposed health …

Filed under: drug rehab treatment programs

These drugs are intended to treat psychiatric conditions. … For instance, the OIG reported in 2012 that almost all nursing home residents receiving atypical antipsychotic drugs did not have proper assessments and care plans that met federal …
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Fentanyl use by opioid addicts on the rise

Filed under: drug rehab treatment programs

Once used mainly to treat patients in palliative care or suffering cancer-related pain, who have built up a tolerance to other opioids, it is now finding its way into tinfoil rolls smoked by 18-year-olds. “It was but a blip on the radar 10 years ago …
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