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Houston tries prostitute rehab instead of jail
When they're released, Griffin first takes the women shopping, "cause all they have is hooker clothes," she said. Some go to drug rehab or a halfway house. Many require job training. And all must attend Griffin's external workshop every Wednesday for …
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Why one local entrepreneur launched a business in his 70s
And now, at the age of 71, Mr. Saleh is the owner of a different kind of pharmacy in Centretown; a methadone clinic with an on-site doctor. But it wasn't only his … He was also let go by the Ontario Addiction Treatment Centre on Somerset Street …
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Report pushes for supervised injection sites in Toronto
It said they have reduced overdose deaths and behaviours that cause HIV and hepatitis C. The report also said such facilities increase the use of detox and addiction treatment, and do not increase crime. But Ontario Health Minister Deb Matthews on …
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Arrested Development Season 4 Episode 5: Tobias saves the day
The two of them have a moment after leaving the methadone clinic and run off together the same time Lindsey and Marky do. Of course, each is too self-absorbed to realize their spouses have made similar decisions. Once Tobias is on his own with his new …
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ANALYSIS: Southeast Asia Slowly Accepting Harm Reduction
Moreover, authorities then herd thousands of drug users into compulsory treatment centres, ignoring evidence-based approaches, and despite a joint UN statement in 2012 calling for the closure of such centres, which are deemed costly with high relapse …
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Drug and alcohol addicts and experts hail UK-first 'interventionist' treatment …
“It's hard to believe but I had a prescription for methadone for ten years and no one ever said do you want to come off this, do you want to go to rehab? “Because I had a child I think It was just assumed I couldn't have time 'off' to do a detox …
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Houston tries prostitute rehab instead of jail
When they're released, Griffin first takes the women shopping, "cause all they have is hooker clothes," she said. Some go to drug rehab or a halfway house. Many require job training. And all must attend Griffin's external workshop every Wednesday for …
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Special Report – How the Pentagon's payroll quagmire traps America's soldiers
Gary J. Pfleider II had been through rehab for drug addiction and was working at a Wal-Mart and a pizza restaurant when he joined the Oregon National Guard in October 2001. He says he wanted to "do something for my country" after the …. At a meeting …
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