Teen Substance Abuse Treatment – Advice to Other Teens – Center for Discovery

Teen Substance Abuse Treatment – Advice to other teens – Center for Discovery – A client of Center for Discovery offers her advice to other teens and adolescents dealing with substance abuse problems. She talks about how the Center for D…

.2 Million Funding Available for Substance Abuse Treatment for Racial …

Filed under: Substance Abuse Treatment

WASHINGTON, March 18 — The U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has announced that it expects to award a maximum of 35 discretionary grants to expand substance abuse treatment and HIV services for racial/ethnic minority …
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STOPP-ing Prescription Drug Abuse

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Preventing these deaths should be a national priority, and two measures that could help to reduce these tragedies — the Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, and the Stop Tampering of Prescription Pills (STOPP) Act — are an excellent …
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Jackie Heath: We can protect our youth — monitor, secure and dispose medications

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… that the number of teens going into treatment for prescription drug abuse increased by more than 300 percent within the span of a decade 1996—2006 (Treatment Episode Data Set Highlights: National Admissions to Substance Abuse Treatment Services).
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