Make the Connection: Adolescent Chemical Dependency Treatment and Recovery

Make the Connection: Adolescent Chemical Dependency Treatment and Recovery – This video is aimed at parents and others concerned about adolescents who have problems with substance abuse. The film describes adolescent addiction and treatment in interviews by parents, adolescents, and treatment providers. This video was updated from the original version produced in 2007 by the Washington State Division of Alcohol and Substance Abuse (now Division of Behavioral Health & Recovery), funded by the national Center for Substance Abuse Prevention. The video was updated in May 2012 to add current contacts for the Washington State Recovery Help Line and other resources.

Mass. Voters Approve Medical Marijuana

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By 2013, the law says, there could be no more than 35 treatment centers around the state with no more than 5 centers in each county. After that, DPH could modify those … It has not been subjected to the same rigorous testing and trials as other drugs …
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Reefer-endum madness

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Colorado and Washington will be on a Rocky Mountain high as recreational use of pot became legal in the two western states, but the possibility of the first southern state passing medical marijuana legislation went up in smoke for Arkansas. Medicinal …
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Prostate patients suffer as money overwhelms optimal therapy

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Favorable Medicare payouts for hormone drugs like Lupron and Zoladex induced “remarkable changes” in prostate cancer treatment in the 1990's, as urologists “almost completely replaced” surgical castration with drug therapy, according to a 2010 study in …
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