Finney County Community Health Coalition part of national pilot project
The Finney County Community Health Coalition, sponsored by St. Catherine Hospital, is leading a local effort to enhance community planning for dealing with concerns related to behavioral health, including mental health and substance use. Verna Weber …
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Alabama Legislature approves 'Carly's Law' – CBS46 News
The oil does not provide a high for users and neurologists say there's growing evidence that it helps control epilepsy and other neurological disorders that produce serious, debilitating and life-threatening seizures that cannot be controlled with …
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Addiction: Nature versus Nurture
For instance, half of all people diagnosed with bipolar disorder have also been diagnosed with a substance use disorder. Their increased risk for addiction has little to do with the way addictive substances and behaviors are experienced in the body …
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Medical examiner confirms latest fatal heroin overdose
The other drug, police Lt. Mark Newport said, was alprazolam, a prescription drug with the trade name Xanax that is used to treat anxiety and panic disorders. Newport said no heroin or drug paraphernalia was found at the scene of Sclafani's death, so …
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Counsellors tell legal high users to smoke real thing
Most people seeking help had used cannabis but switched to synthetics most probably because they were legal and could not be detected in work-place drug tests. BOP Addiction Services and Te Puna Hauora did not respond to Bay of Plenty Times …
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Is harm reduction the best way to fight addiction?
The Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney says selling "drug paraphernalia" doesn't fit with the Conservative's approach to fighting addiction. We'll hear from two people involved in drug counselling and addiction reduction policy, with two very …
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