State Finances, Drug Abuse, and Consolidation Dominate Town Board Meeting

State Finances, Drug Abuse, and Consolidation Dominate Town Board Meeting

Filed under: substance abuse addiction

David Gerber, director of counseling at St. Christopher's Inn, the substance-abuse treatment center based at Graymoor, the monastery of the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement, and Marianne Taylor-Rhoads, the facility's chief operating officer, told the … Read more on Philipstown.info

 


Strategic Goal 15: Substance Abuse Treatment – Maryland ranks in the top one-third of states in terms of substance abuse addiction, a problem which contributes to a range of public health and safety conce…

 

Surviving High: The cost of addiction

Filed under: substance abuse addiction

The 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health found that 620,000 admitted to using heroin and 77 percent surveyed indicated their heroin addiction followed prescription drug abuse. Financially, the great expense of addiction and staying high often … Read more on Uniontown Herald Standard

 

Editorial: NJ drug addiction study underscores deadly problem facing state

Filed under: substance abuse addiction

Starting with the first sentence of its report on a two-year study of New Jersey's drug problems, the Governor's Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse doesn't mince words. “The skyrocketing use of heroin and other opiates has become the number one … Read more on NJ.com