Health Notes: Two Harbors gets new drug and alcohol recovery program
Health Notes: Two Harbors gets new drug and alcohol recovery program
Filed under: alcohol and drug abuse treatment
A nonprofit agency in Duluth that helps people recover from drug and alcohol abuse has opened an outpatient program in Two Harbors. The Center for Alcohol and Drug Treatment opened its outpatient substance abuse treatment program at Lake View …
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The Search for Alcoholism's Miracle Drug
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McHugh's story is a familiar one to doctors who treat alcoholism, like Peter Banys, Director of Substance Abuse Programs at the VA. “It's always a crisis,” Banys says. “And it can be a marital crisis, a family crisis, or job termination.” Alcoholism is …
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Teenage drinking raises risk of early dementia, study suggests
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Other "late adolescent risk factors" identified by the researchers included stroke, use of amtopsychotic drugs, depression, father's dementia, drugs intoxication other than alcohol, low cognitive function at conscription, low height at conscription and …
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Drug and alcohol testing rare in public schools
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But he said drug or alcohol testing is more of a Band-Aid than an actual solution. "We can't arrest our way out of the problem, and we won't test our way out of the problem," he said. "We have to treat this as a health problem. We need to talk about …
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