NCADD-NJ Advocacy Leadership Program – The Advocacy Leadership Program aims to develop highly knowledgeable and trained citizens of New Jersey, especially those most impacted or affected by alcoho…

Opinion: Decriminalising drugs

Filed under: drug addiction treatment act

According to UKDPC, the cost of implementing current policy on illicit drugs is at least £3bn a year, but a lack of evidence for what works and provides value for money, and politicians' unwillingness to act on available evidence, means that much of …
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An extreme life: Man who won house says giving life to God, getting off drugs …

Filed under: drug addiction treatment act

He had a three-bedroom home, a garage and a couple of roommates who paid the lion's share of his rent. He was still using meth and intravenous drugs heavily as he traveled around the country setting up stages, sound and lighting for acts like Aerosmith …
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The Frustration of Families with Alcoholics and Drug Addicts

Filed under: drug addiction treatment act

… to Senator John Kerry in Boston, Massachusetts, to modify a change in the Patient Privacy Act, to allow immediate family (parents, and/or siblings), access to medical information which can be used to help a substance abuse patient get the proper …
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