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Treatment options needed to fight addiction, officials say
Currently, a person living in Bennington County seeking methadone treatment must travel to Brattleboro, Burlington, Greenfield, Mass., or West Lebanon, N.H., according to Deputy Commissioner for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs with the Vermont …
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Man On Cocaine Told Police He Had To Smash Windshield To Escape Gators …
A man holds a crocodile with tape around its mouth, as workers from the Natuurhulpcentrum, a wildlife rehabilitation center, collect several crocodiles at a villa in Lapscheure, near the Dutch border, on Dec. 22, 2011. Police discovered eleven Nile …
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Sweep gives Camden prostitutes choice of charges or rehab
Inside, she is given a clear-cut choice: Go to rehab or face criminal charges. Those were the options given 10 women picked up during a Wednesday morning sweep carried out by the Camden County Police. “What this does is provide us the opportunity to …
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Crack Addict, Gary Pipe, Kicks Habit To Save Dog's Life: 'I Knew If I Kept …
Pipe kicked his heroin and pain killer addictions that ruined his life for more than 25 years through a methadone treatment program. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the treatment program aims to help injection drug users …
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San Francisco Health Officials Respond to FDA's Move to Crack Down on …
The overdose rate tripled since the 1990s and the amount of pharmaceutical opioids purchased quadrupled since 1999, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. … San Francisco mirrored some of the national trends, with hospital …
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Justin Bieber Stands By Dad's Side After His Surgery!
What a good boy! Justin Bieber flew all the way up to Ontario, Canada where his dad Jeremy Bieber lives – just to be with his pops during a time of need! …. CAN happen! Even though we were so scared to watch this lady choose jail over rehab – it …
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Breaking Good
In a prison in Lewisburg, Pa., he entered an intensive nine-month drug rehab program that would reduce his time but also, he hoped, at last free him of his addictions. The rehab counselors at one point asked Joe to list the people his drug use had hurt …
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Marijuana cultivation can be welcomed, done right
All kinds of legitimate questions are being raised about the proposal by the newly formed Center for Alternative Life Medicine, which is matter-of-factly presenting a plan to employ 300 people in one of the former Berkshire-Hathaway buildings on Cove …
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Autopsy: Grimes teen died from drug overdose
West would have been a senior at Dallas Center Grimes High School, according to an obituary. She was found unconscious June 22 at … Methadone is used to treat chronic pain, some cancer treatment symptoms and heroin withdrawal. As a synthetic opiate, …
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