Teen Addiction
Teen Addiction – Teen addiction is hard on everyone, but help is available. The most important thing to understand is that addiction is a disease. If a child has cancer we do…
Suboxone, an addiction treatment drug, seeps into Ohio prisons as contraband
Filed under: drug addiction treatment
CLEVELAND, Ohio — A simple greeting card mailed to an inmate contained more than words from a well-wisher: it had 20 strips of Suboxone, a drug used to satisfy the brain's hunger for opiates and limit the harsh withdrawal crash that addicts suffer …
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Robert Downey Jr.'s Son Getting Treated For Prescription Pill Problem
Filed under: drug addiction treatment
The last thing that Robert Downey Jr., 48, would want for his twenty-year-old son, Indio Falconer Downey, would be a drug problem similar to the one he publicly battled for a little under a decade. Indio's treatment is not reported as serious — but …
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Christie touts drug court program in accepting award from Somerset County …
Filed under: drug addiction treatment
More than a decade ago, Chris Christie took a chance on a recovering drug addict by offering him an internship in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Newark. … It mandates that non-violent drug offenders be sentenced to treatment programs instead of prison.
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