Oversight Needed on "Sober Houses"

Oversight needed on "sober houses"

Filed under: drug addiction treatment act

But it's the ones unaffiliated with any treatment program that have become neighborhood nuisances and the focus of much-needed legislation. HB 1089 and SB 738 attempt to define a form of transitional living facility that currently doesn't exist in …
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Dallas Season 2, Finale Recap (4/15/13)

Filed under: drug addiction treatment act

Understandably Junior's ready to grab his daddy's gun (left to him in the will and one of the ingredients in J. R.'s Revenge Casserole — best served cold, of course) and pop a few caps into his new father-in-law, but Bobby's cooler head prevails …
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Fort Bliss attacks the suicide problem

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The case is a success of sorts — a soldier treated, a suicide prevented — and it reflects an encouraging shift at Ft. Bliss, one of the Army's largest bases, a vast Texas sprawl of 30,000 soldiers and row upon row of armored vehicles brought back …
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Young adults using Obamacare for depression, pregnancy, drug abuse

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The survey of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's popular provision that requires employers to extend coverage to children found at one huge employer that the three treatments account for 60 percent of hospital claims for the young adults …
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