Hazelden Responds to National Opioid Epidemic With Enhanced Evidenced

Hazelden responds to national opioid epidemic with enhanced evidenced

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In Center City, Minn., for example, those seeking treatment for opioid addiction rose from 19 percent of patients in 2001 to 30 percent in 2011. An even more dramatic jump was seen at Hazelden's facility for young adults and adolescents in Plymouth …
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We Need a Conceptual Breakthrough in the War on Drugs

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Americans believe drugs cause addiction — the more drugs, the more addiction. So we need, above all, always to stem the supply of drugs. And the disease theory espoused by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (embodied by Nora Volkow: June 13, 2011 …
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Octomom Nadya Suleman leaves drug rehab to film music video

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Octomom Nadya Suleman, who's currently in a 28-day drug rehab program, temporarily left treatment to film a spoof music video in Tennessee. Suleman … "I think I could have been self-medicating through children," Nadya revealed in January 2011. "I …
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Ex-Prosecutor Gets Prison Deal in Vegas Drug Case

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Ex-Prosecutor Gets Prison Deal in Vegas Drug Case. By KEN RITTER Associated Press … Instead, Schubert told the judge he felt he'd been treated exceptionally harshly for his March 2011 arrest with $ 40 in rock cocaine and an unregistered handgun in his …
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