Six Problems: Third in a Series on the WaPo Nonprofit “Asset Diversion” Database

Six Problems: Third in a Series on the WaPo Nonprofit “Asset Diversion” Database

Filed under: Drug Abuse Phoenix

One of the external board memberships of the foundation president and CEO is Phoenix House, a nationwide network of heroin and other addiction detoxification and treatment centers. This year, an audit by the state comptroller of New York, not an …
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BC inquest hears shooting victim's father concerned about son's troubled past

Filed under: Drug Abuse Phoenix

Mitchell began using drugs, his school marks deteriorated, he stole money from home and he broke into cars. His father took him to several counsellors, but he dropped in and out of various schools and treatment programs in British Columbia and Alberta …
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Drugs and lack of safe housing part of Vancouver's mental health crisis:experts

Filed under: Drug Abuse Phoenix

But forensic psychiatrist Shabehram Lohrasbe believes the gradual closure over the last two decades of Riverview Hospital, a mental health facility in suburban Vancouver, plus the simultaneous "explosion of drug use" could have created the perfect storm.
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