Substance Abuse in Aging and Elderly Adults

Substance Abuse in Aging and Elderly Adults

Filed under: Substance Abuse

Dr Bogunovic is a Psychiatrist in Charge in the residential and partial program in the Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass. She is the Associate Program Director of the Partner's Healthcare Addiction Psychiatry …
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People in Progress, longtime substance abuse program, may close its doors

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One of the city's leading providers of substance-abuse treatment plans to shut its doors after nearly 40 years, barring an 11th-hour influx of funding. People in Progress, which opened in 1974 and helps individuals struggling with drug abuse, alcohol …
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DARE program updates its curriculum

Filed under: Substance Abuse

Law enforcement officers from throughout the state are meeting in eastern Iowa to improve the D.A.R.E. — Drug Abuse Resistance Education — program many people nationwide have gone through. This week marks Iowa's annual D.A.R.E. conference.
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Substance abuse topic of SAFE meeting

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“Our mission is to engage all sectors of the community in preventing substance abuse or reducing substance abuse,” Frith said. “We reach out to everyone to help us understand the nature of the areas that make up Chesterfield County, and we then work on …
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Aligning Substance Abuse Prevention with Mental Health and Primary Care – CSAP Director Frances Harding discusses with SAMHSA’s CAPT Principal Investigator Wayne Harding the agency’s vision for delivering prevention services in the context of behavioral health.