Kye Nordfelt earns national honor for work to end drug abuse

Filed under: drug abuse treatment programs

Since 2008, Kye Nordfelt has been working to reduce drug and alcohol abuse in Utah County, getting grants to fund programs and motivating community members to get involved in the cause. Nordfelt, who serves as the Substance Misuse and Abuse Reduction …
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Tomblin Right On Drug Abuse

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A third very promising recommendation from the governor's panel was to do a better job of evaluating whether substance abuse treatment programs really work. Doing so could save taxpayers money that could be directed instead to effective treatment.
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Round table discussion focuses on prescription drug abuse

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Rahall decided to organize the roundtable after introducing the Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, the House companion measure to the Senate bill authored by Rockefeller. The bills would promote both physician and consumer education …
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Jenelle Evans in Malibu, Florida facility, getting out Thursday

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On their website the center described itself this way: “Promises Treatment Centers is a dual-diagnosis addiction treatment center specializing in a variety of addictions, such as alcoholism, cocaine addiction and prescription drug abuse.” All of this …
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