Michigan Moving Closer to Drug Testing Welfare Recipients

Michigan moving closer to drug testing welfare recipients

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The substance abuse screening would be required if there's "reasonable suspicion" that the person is using illegal drugs. Representative … Critics say suspicion-based drug testing demonizes the poor and unfairly hurts children of addicts. Melissa …
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guest commentary Approve plan for homeless

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However, for too many individuals, their addictions to alcohol or drugs have negatively impacted their housing stability and interfered with their recovery. They are trapped in their addictions, unable to escape their "community of support" on the …
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Rahall congratulates Drug Court graduates

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O'Briant pointed out that everybody has a close friend or family member who has been affected by substance abuse and he noted the Drug Court program was just one tool that could be used to help deal with the drug addiction problem faced by so many …
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A Shot in the Dark: Can Vivitrol Help Us Control Our Addictions? – Pacific

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Evaluating Vivitrol, the newest anti-addiction drug—actually an injectable form of an old pill. … “Alcohol is a promiscuous substance,” says Erin Zerbo, MD, associate program director of the Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship at the NYU School of …
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