Butler County Crash Inquiry Stymied in Quest for Clinic Records

Butler County crash inquiry stymied in quest for clinic records

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State police in Butler say federal rules that protect patients are making it difficult to get records from a Cranberry methadone clinic that treated a heroin addict an hour before his vehicle plowed head-on into another, killing a Butler man last month …
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Sociologists find treatment works, but only for urban parolees

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Substance abuse treatment is the most common type of assistance for offenders, followed by programs that help improve cognitive and decision-making skills. Although researchers can show that treatment works, 65 percent of offenders in Iowa do not …
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Mental Illness May Raise Risk of Being Murdered

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Improved housing, financial stability and treatment for substance abuse may also lower the risk of violent crime for people with mental illness, they suggested. The findings show that doctors need to assess the full range of potential harm faced by …
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Research pinpoints, prevents stress-induced drug relapse in rats

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Moreover, this new understanding allowed the researchers to prevent relapse to drug seeking in the animal model. When they treated rats that had recovered from cocaine addiction with a chemical that blocks the "kappa opioid receptors" that stress …
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