Getting Help for Addiction

Getting Help For Addiction – KATU-TV in Portland, Oregon, interviews Dr. Vern Williams, medical director of Hazelden in Newberg, Oregon, in light of Charlie Sheen’s ’20/20′ interview regarding treatment for addiction. Williams explains how to get help and/or seek treatment, and why Sheen discredited treatment for addiction. For more information about Hazelden, please visit www.hazelden.org or call 800-257-7810.

Ore. girl, 7, is medical marijuana patient

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A 7-year-old girl suffering from leukemia has become one of Oregon's youngest medical marijuana patients. Mykayla Comstock's mother credits the drug with helping put the cancer into remission. But her father, worried about the effects of the drug on …
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USA: Thousands of People Hospitalized for Artificial Drug

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The research group's Drug Abuse Warning Network found that children between 12 and 17 are a third of those affected, while young adults between 18 and 24 years are another 35 percent. In 59 percent of cases involving patients aged between 12 and 29 …
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Is medical marijuana safe for children?

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Her mother, a long time advocate for medical use of the illegal drug, has been giving her a gram of oral cannabis oil every day. Despite the fact that medical marijuana is legal in Oregon, where Comstock lives, the idea of giving it to a child still …
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