Jack Horton: Considering Cost and Results, Treatment Works Better
Jack Horton: Considering cost and results, treatment works better
Filed under: drug rehab treatment methods
Last Sunday's editorial supporting more treatment programs to keep offenders with drug and/or alcohol addictions out of prison is one all state leaders should embrace. Until you wrote about this, I was not aware of the WISDOM project. This project …
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Brian Boegel: Treatment and supervision should be mandatory
Filed under: drug rehab treatment methods
… up programs in all of its prisons and circuit and county courts that look first at whether a person convicted of crimes committed while under the influence of alcohol would benefit from both short- and long-term alcohol and other drug abuse (AODA …
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Sunday Dialogue: Medicating for ADHD
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When medication does appear to be a potential tool for treatment, I work closely with children and parents to examine the pharmacological options, potential risks and side effects. Like most of my … Drugs can be helpful but are not the answer. Kids …
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Rethinking our attitude to drugs
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They argue that far better public health outcomes would be generated were the use of several illicit substances decriminalised and regulated, and that drug use be treated as a health issue, rather than a criminal one. Last week, The Age published a …
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