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Portacot queried at baby's inquest
On February 29, a hospital report stated that Ricco "displayed severe signs of withdrawal necessitating treatment", and he was started on morphine. He was weaned off methadone and remained in hospital for five weeks until being discharged into CYF care.
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Detox center plans big expansion
PORT RICHEY – Despite uncertainties over federal health care reform, Novus Medical Detox is in the midst of expanding their Port Richey facility from 12 to 31 beds for people battling substance abuse. Even so, Executive Director Kent Runyon is …
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Alternative Centers Work to Rehab Indonesia's Harsh Drug Laws
But community rehab centers like Sam's don't see it as merely a numbers game, but more of a fundamental failure by the central government to recognize the value in alternative methods of treating drug addiction other than just eradication. “They're …
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Houston experiments with rehab for prostitutes instead of jail
Kathryn Griffin Grinan, center, and "her girls" dance during their meeting in a Harris County cell in Houston. Griffin founded and leads the prostitution rehabilitation program We've Been There Done That. (AP Image) …
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Houston tries prostitute rehab instead of jail
Kathryn Griffin Grinan, center, and "her girls" dance during their meeting in a Harris County cell Tuesday, June 4, 2013, in Houston. Griffin founded and leads the prostitution rehabilitation program We've Been There Done That. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan).
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Province sidesteps local methadone clinic controversy
Frank Etherington is upset that the Towards Recovery Clinic is locating at 1145 King St. E., just 160 metres from the Ontario Addiction Treatment Centre. It's the third clinic in his central Kitchener ward serving addicts. He wants it to pick a …
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The regulator for Ontario doctors is wading into London's methadone debate, decrying a political push to make security cameras mandatory outside many local clinics and pharmacies. With council to vote next month on a plan to license methadone …
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Home News Documentary on local boot camp to premiere in…
As a recovering drug addict on Ontario Works, she couldn't afford the bill and began plucking away at the most urgent things every month or two. Markham filled MacDonald's cavities, replaced her silver fillings with white ones, and also whitened her teeth.
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Houston tries prostitute rehab instead of jail – WECT TV6-WECT.com:News …
After entering and failing nearly two dozen drug rehab programs, Griffin got clean 10 years ago through Houston's drug court. From that she learned what worked, and understood what didn't, and she tailor made a curriculum for prostitutes. "There are …
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Yankees' Jeter takes batting practice in Tampa
(AP) – Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter has taken on-field batting practice for the first time since being cleared to increase his rehabilitation program for a broken left ankle. Jeter took 21 swings on Wednesday at the Yankees' minor league complex in …
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Cannabis factory man earned thousands, court told
But at Warwick Crown Court this week the 36-year-old was given an eight month prison term suspended for 18 months, with 18 months supervision and conditions that he takes part in drug rehabilitation and offending behaviour programmes. The former …
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Smack is back in Liverpool – but at least the approach to treating drug …
I've got my own flat, I'm running a Peer Support Group and I'm four years drug free, so that's success to me.” The National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse (NTA), set up in 2001, has now become a part of Public Health England, an executive agency …
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