Getting Help for Addiction

Getting Help For Addiction – KATU-TV in Portland, Oregon, interviews Dr. Vern Williams, medical director of Hazelden in Newberg, Oregon, in light of Charlie Sheen’s ’20/20′ interview regarding treatment for addiction. Williams explains how to get help and/or seek treatment, and why Sheen discredited treatment for addiction. For more information about Hazelden, please visit www.hazelden.org or call 800-257-7810.

Fighting Prescription Drug Abuse in Arkansas

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The National Governor's Association (NGA) announced the selection of Arkansas and four other states (Kentucky, New Mexico, Oregon and Virginia), to join Alabama and Colorado in developing and implementing comprehensive and coordinated strategies that …
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Oregon pot measure in your hands

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Profits from the state's sale of marijuana would be distributed as follows: 90 percent to the state general fund; 7 percent for drug abuse treatment; 1 percent for promotion of hemp via a new Hemp Fiber and Food Committee; 1 percent to promote …
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Colo. Physicians Back Legal Weed: 'It Is Time To Stop Criminalizing Adults For …

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Speakers include Tom Gorman, director of the Rocky Mountain High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, and Dr. Christian Thurstone. Thurstone is medical director of one of Colorado's largest youth substance abuse treatment clinics and an associated …
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Physicians Focus on Curbing Opioid Abuse, Accidental Deaths

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Then the pendulum shifted, as research revealed that many people were living with chronic, untreated pain and needed help to manage it – and pharmaceutical companies also began manufacturing, and aggressively marketing, more powerful opioid … The …
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