Drug Treatment Works, Illinois Advocates Say
Drug Treatment Works, Illinois Advocates Say – (Springfield, IL) –The estimated number of Illinois residents waiting for alcohol and drug abuse assessment and treatment at state-financed facilities in 2008 rose 17 percent in, according to a report released at a press conference in Springfield, IL on May 1, 2008. The report by the Survey Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago surveyed 106 Illinois community treatment providers in December 2007 and revealed 7541 people were waiting for some form of treatment, up from 6467 in March 2007. State Senator Jeff Schoenberg (D-Evanston) is sponsoring legislation, SB 2886, to boost prevention and treatment funding by million in this year’s budget. Craig Stallings, the Administrator of Adult Services at Rosecrance, a substance abuse treatment center in Rockford, Illinois, explains the importance of treatment. James Duncan, a client at Gateway Foundation in Illinois, testifies to the problem of state waiting lists.
Abused or neglected kids more likely to have impaired body and brain
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In one treatment center, she was prescribed five mood-stablizing medications, which she believes weren't needed and which she has stopped taking now that she is an adult. It wasn't until her last placement that a therapist finally worked to …
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State reports 2nd probable case of meningitis associated with tainted drug
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The patient received the drug, since recalled by New England Compounding Centers, at one of the three Chicago-area APAC Centers for Pain Management. As of Friday, the Centers for Disease Control tied the tainted drug to 404 cases of fungal meningitis …
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Second Likely Menningitis Case Tied to Contaminated Drug Reported in Illinois
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Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. LaMar Hasbrouck says the victim is a Chicago resident who received an epidural steroid injection of the recalled medication from one of the three APAC Centers for Pain Management. He is undergoing …
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