State Finances, Drug Abuse, and Consolidation Dominate Town Board Meeting
State Finances, Drug Abuse, and Consolidation Dominate Town Board Meeting
Filed under: substance abuse addiction
David Gerber, director of counseling at St. Christopher's Inn, the substance-abuse treatment center based at Graymoor, the monastery of the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement, and Marianne Taylor-Rhoads, the facility's chief operating officer, told the … Read more on Philipstown.info
Strategic Goal 15: Substance Abuse Treatment – Maryland ranks in the top one-third of states in terms of substance abuse addiction, a problem which contributes to a range of public health and safety conce…
Surviving High: The cost of addiction
Filed under: substance abuse addiction
The 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health found that 620,000 admitted to using heroin and 77 percent surveyed indicated their heroin addiction followed prescription drug abuse. Financially, the great expense of addiction and staying high often … Read more on Uniontown Herald Standard
Editorial: NJ drug addiction study underscores deadly problem facing state
Filed under: substance abuse addiction
Starting with the first sentence of its report on a two-year study of New Jersey's drug problems, the Governor's Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse doesn't mince words. “The skyrocketing use of heroin and other opiates has become the number one … Read more on NJ.com