Prime for Life Helps Marines, Sailors

Prime for Life helps Marines, sailors

Filed under: alcohol and drug abuse treatment

Prime for Life is a free course conducted aboard base and available to all active duty Marines, sailors, and qualified family members struggling with alcohol abuse and drug addiction. Prime for Life is an education level class and not a treatment program.
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Substance Abuse Prevention Partnership focuses on addicted babies

Filed under: alcohol and drug abuse treatment

The epidemic that Dr. Chaffin is referencing are numbers from maternal-fetal medicine experts that say that seventy-five of every thousand babies born at Cabell Huntington Hospital have been exposed to drugs or alcohol. The national average is five per …
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Gilson, Mount, Cleary and Hutson: Prescription drug database boon to state

Filed under: alcohol and drug abuse treatment

Still, it will be a critical component of Wisconsin's broader drug abuse prevention efforts that address safe medication use, storage and disposal. In fact, in 2012 the State Council on Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse recommended a PDMP as part of a more …
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Mental health policy is wild card in gun safety

Filed under: alcohol and drug abuse treatment

Heisinger's death in 2000 led to a new state law – Kevin's Law – four years later allowing judges to order those diagnosed with serious mental illness and deemed a threat to themselves and others to receive outpatient treatment. In the nine years since …
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