State unveils easier access to overdose-reversing drug
In addition, officials plan to distribute that drug, naloxone, at opiate addiction treatment centers and make it available on ambulances. Eventually the state wants to allow doctors to prescribe Narcan to patients who would be able to pick it up at the …
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Hazelden-Betty Ford Center Psychologist Tapped to Lead Colorado Treatment …
… Hazelden-Betty Ford Foundation and Hazelden Graduate School of Addiction Studies, has been chosen as the new Chief Clinical Officer (CCO) of Harmony Foundation, Colorado's longest running residential alcohol and drug addiction treatment center.
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Pregnant women's rights under attack? Legislation, conference address concerns
Three of those states — Wisconsin, Minnesota, and South Dakota — allow pregnant women to be forced into mental health or substance abuse treatment facilities. “It's absolutely insane what happened to her,” Taylor said. “They treated her like a criminal.
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