Rise in Prescription Drug Overdoses by Women Wins Comment from KLEAN …

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Rather than relying on prescription painkillers, they should consider alternative courses of treatment and reserve prescriptions for more serious situations. They should also utilize the services provided by state drug monitoring programs to see if the …
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LIVING SAFE: STAR Program offers path to recovery for certain offenders

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Participants in the STAR Program enter an intensive drug rehabilitation program. The treatment is an alternative to incarceration. Through this intervention, the cycle of arrest, incarceration, release, and recidivism is interrupted. For these repeat …
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Heroin Track Marks Are the Scars of War in Afghanistan

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The only support available for injection drug users are 12-step programs with notoriously low success rates, like Narcotics Anonymous, or so-called drug treatment centers like the infamous City Without Drugs, where clients endure harsh prison-like …
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Shawn Scott sentenced Thursday for lab operation

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He's also required to participate in residential drug treatment and drug court programs. Should he fail to comply with conditions, Shawn Scott would face five to eight years in prison. “If you screw those up, we go to plan B, and that's prison for a …
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