Marion frustrated by spike in drug abuse

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Dave Wilhelm, clinical associate director at the Marion Area Counseling Center, which offers one of the few treatment programs in town for heroin addicts, said about 90 percent of the people the center treats have an opiate addiction. The counseling …
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Memantine May Improve Cognition in Bipolar Disorder

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MIAMI — A drug that for years has been approved to treat moderate to severe Alzheimer's disease may have a role in improving the cognitive deficits associated with bipolar disorder. In a randomized, controlled, parallel-arm clinical trial of adjuvant …
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Project provides former inmates with housing, faith-based setting

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FARGO – It was Halloween, and Nathan Negaard was fleeing the Centre transitional living facility here after using drugs with friends. By: Cali Owings, INFORUM … After he got out of jail, Light lived at North Dakota Teen Challenge, a residential …
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