Brockton Region Looks to Social Media to Help Area Youth Fight Addiction

Brockton region looks to social media to help area youth fight addiction

Filed under: drug treatment news 2010

The site, which is private for area youths recovering from drug addiction, was launched two months ago and now boasts 200 recovering addicts as members, said Dr. Joseph Shrand. Shrand, who treats local addicts ages 13 to 17, hopes federal dollars …
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'Addiction Was Part of Her Life'

Filed under: drug treatment news 2010

In 1974, when Donto James was 6, he went to visit his mother, R&B icon Etta James, in the Tarzana Psychiatric Hospital after she'd been sentenced to drug treatment instead of prison on a heroin charge. James hadn't seen his 36-year-old mother for …
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Pills prove a prescription for addiction

Filed under: drug treatment news 2010

Only one-third involved heroin. Preliminary figures suggest there were 612 such deaths in 2009, a 22 per cent increase from 2008, and 705 in 2010, a 15 per cent increase. Dr Mike McDonough, the head of addiction medicine at Melbourne's Western Hospital …
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