Marion frustrated by spike in drug abuse

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Dave Wilhelm, clinical associate director at the Marion Area Counseling Center, which offers one of the few treatment programs in town for heroin addicts, said about 90 percent of the people the center treats have an opiate addiction. The counseling …
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Believe Offers Adequately Equipped Drug and Alcohol Treatment for Drug and …

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Boca Raton, FL — (SBWIRE) — 06/11/2013 — Believe Treatment Center offers adequately equipped drug and alcohol treatment center for complete rehabilitation from drug and alcohol addiction. Their effective rehabilitation programs use more than one …
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Lawmakers want clampdown on prescription drug abuse

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Without that federal funding, "we've shifted our focus from that effort to other technologies," Westley Clark, head of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's substance abuse treatment center, told the panel. That shift of focus …
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Addicts Offered Another Option For Treatment

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Unlike those medications,Vivitrol is an opioid antagonist and blocks the pleasure centers in the brain. A patient being treated with Vivitrol could potentially take heroin and not experience a reaction because the drug blocks the uphoric effects of the …
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