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I am pleased to share with you that, today, President Obama announced his intent to nominate Pamela Hyde to be Administrator for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
Pamela Hyde has served as Cabinet Secretary of the New Mexico Human Services Department since 2003. [...]
The Fitzsimon File. August 31, 2009
Monday numbers
Here are some numbers to consider this last day of August [...]
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is alerting medical professionals, substance abuse treatment centers and other public health authorities about the risk that substantial levels of cocaine may be adulterated with levamisole – a veterinary anti-parasitic drug.
RecoveryNC is pleased to acknowledge the selection of Kevin R. McDonald, Founder, President and CEO of Triangle Residential Options for Substance Abusers (TROSA), located in Durham, as this year’s North Carolina Representative to the Arts and Entertainment Television’s The Recovery Project, a multi-faceted, multi-year initiative to raise awareness that addiction to alcohol and drugs is [...]
A discharged patient dies, leaving questions about his care and the drug found on him.
BY MICHAEL BIESECKER, Staff Writer
Two hours after he was discharged from a state psychiatric hospital in Goldsboro last month, Jeffery Scott Swaim’s mother found him slumped in the seat of a Greyhound bus in Wilmington. [...]
July 9th, 2009
Contact: Phil Mooring (252) 237-1242
Community Advocates Applaud Governor Purdue’s Support
for Increases to Alcohol and Tobacco Taxes
The North Carolina Substance Abuse Federation, reacting to Governor Beverly Purdue’s Pathway to a Balanced Budget that was released Tuesday, issued a [...]
Military testing pilot programs to erase stigma of seeking help
By Kelly Kennedy – Staff writer
Posted : Monday Jun 29, 2009 13:27:53 EDT
One in eight troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan from 2006 to 2008 were referred for counseling for alcohol problems after their post-deployment health assessments, according to data from the Armed Forces Health [...]
By Gregg Zoroya, USA TODAY
The rate of Army soldiers enrolled in treatment programs for alcohol dependency or abuse has nearly doubled since 2003 — a sign of the growing stress of repeated deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to Army statistics and interviews.
Soldiers diagnosed by Army substance abuse counselors with alcoholism or alcohol abuse, such [...]
By Gregg Zoroya, USA TODAY
May 21, 2009
WASHINGTON — Army commanders are failing to punish or seek treatment for a growing number of soldiers who test positive for substance abuse, possibly because they don’t want to lose any more combat troops, the Army’s vice chief of staff has warned.
In [...]
By JANE E. BRODY
Sarah Allen Benton is hardly your stereotypical alcoholic. She has a master of science degree from Northeastern University and is a licensed mental health counselor at Emmanuel College in Boston. In recovery from alcoholism for the last five years, she has written an enlightening new book about people like herself, “Understanding the [...]
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