Technology Innovations for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Treatment Conference – On September 16, 2013, the top three challenge finalists of the “Behavioral Health Empowerment Challenge” were announced at the at the Technology Innovations…

Triple Care Farm: Why drug addiction and mental illness need to be managed …

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My goal in life was to take drugs. That's it." That was before Luke enrolled at Triple Care Farm, a residential rehabilitation service provided by the Sir David Martin Foundation and Mission Australia on the NSW southern highlands. When Luke started at …
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Denver looks at short-term, long-term changes to quell LoDo problems

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With the exception of simple assault, violent crime in LoDo is down about 13 percent for the first nine months of 2013 compared with the same period in 2012, according to an analysis of Denver police statistics. Simple assaults … "We took a day trip …
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Foster Children System Needs Repair

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The statistics don't show the large-scale abuse of foster children, which amounts to a national challenge. Individual communities have to step into … Parental drug and alcohol abuse underlie the reason many children need foster care. Unfortunately …
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Judges in Ohio use injections to combat drug addiction

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Statistics from the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services showed that 60 percent of addicts who treated with methadone stayed opiate-free. According to the Enquirer, the 2011 pilot program in Warren County found that inmates treated …
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