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Policy Position on Discrimination Faces & Voices’ board of directors has released a policy position on discrimination. “People in or in need of recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs face myriad forms of discrimination. Discrimination creates barriers to our full participation in community life. Faces & Voices of Recovery strives to eliminate all [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Smoky Mountain Center and Crossroads Behavioral Healthcare Issue Joint Announcement Regarding Services Transition in Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Watauga, Wilkes, Iredell, Surry, and Yadkin Counties Sylva, N.C. (October 12, 2011) – On Thursday September 29, Smoky Mountain Center and Crossroads Behavioral Healthcare Local Management Entities (LMEs) learned, based on a communication from New [...]
Below is the September-October 2011 issue of the NCADD Washington Report. NCADD Washington Report Source: www.ncadd.org
The estimated number of people using marijuana for the first time appears to be increasing, according to data from the 2010 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH). More than 2.4 million persons ages 12 or older used marijuana for the first time in 2010, compared to the most recent low of 2.1 million [...]
RALEIGH, N.C. — The N.C. Rural Economic Development Center and five partnering agencies today announced the availability of $6.5 million to support health care facilities and job creation in rural North Carolina. The six nonprofit and governmental partners are making grants and loans available under an initiative called Rural Hope. The Rural Center has dedicated [...]
A new reality television show, purporting to depict drug court is slated to premiere on September 26th. However, there are a significant number of concerns about the treatment of persons addicted to alcohol and drugs as part of the new show as best expressed by West Huddleston, CEO of the National Association of Drug Court [...]
WASHINGTON – The demographic characteristics of students who are likely to misuse prescription drugs are well-documented: these students are most often white, male, and involved in the Greek system, and they have lower grades than their peers. Less well-known are the psychological traits that might lead students to abuse psychotherapeutics such as stimulants and sedatives, [...]
By: CNN Congressional Producer Rachel Streitfeld Washington (CNN) – The face of drug addiction has changed, and the government is working to adapt. The 21st-century drug addict is more likely to get a fix from a medicine cabinet than from a needle. More than 5 million Americans misused prescription painkillers in a one-month period [...]
By DAVID COLMAN Published: May 6, 2011 “I’M David Colman, and I’m an alcoholic. In the 15 years since I quit drinking, I’ve neither spoken nor written those words, and now, in doing so, I have more or less violated the first-name-only tenet of Alcoholics Anonymous, the grass-roots organization whose meetings have helped me (and [...]
ScienceDaily (Apr. 6, 2011) — Two reports by addiction researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the National Institute on Drug Abuse show a drastic shift in prescribing patterns impacting the magnitude of opioid substance abuse in America. The reports, published in JAMA, recommend a comprehensive effort to reduce public health risks [...]
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