Montco Drug Court embraces treatment, not jail for heroin addicts

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“You're not dead yet from your addiction,” O'Neill told two women and a man as he accepted them into the county's drug court program. “It's pretty hard to live with an addiction like all of you have had, and you're not dead, because that's where …
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Delray Recovery Center Now Offers Medical Detox for Addiction Treatment

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Delray Recovery Center is a Florida facility that offers individualized treatment plans for drug addiction, alcohol addiction, eating disorders and co-occurring disorders. The first step of most addiction treatment programs is purging the substance …
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Judge's arrest shines light on Utah's prescription drug abuse problem

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Michael Crookston, medical director of the Dayspring treatment programs for chemical dependence at LDS Hospital, said OxyContin abuse has decreased in recent years because drug manufacturers have built safeguards in to the pills to prevent addicts from …
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