County Hopes to Reopen Drug, Alcohol Treatment Program to Court-Ordered Patients

Published January 30, 2013

County hopes to reopen drug, alcohol treatment program to court-ordered patients

Filed under: drug abuse symptoms

They said we need to stop taking involuntaries," said Kim Phillips, director of the Substance Abuse Services Center — known to many simply as detox. Involuntaries are those people — about 150 a year — ordered by a judge to get substance abuse treatment.
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In Twin Cities, heroin treatment on the rise

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Falkowski, who now conducts training workshops on combating drug abuse, said there was an interesting change last year: The percentage of people in treatment for prescription painkillers declined slightly for the first time, even as treatment for …
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Rapid, On-site HIV Testing: Increases Life Expectancy and Is Cost-effective

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This study expands upon a previous finding of the National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network Rapid HIV Testing and Counseling Study that showed that onsite rapid HIV testing in substance abuse treatment programs correlated with increased …
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