Nurses Lifeline — Country’s Leading Treatment Program for Nurses With Addiction.

Nurses Lifeline — Country’s Leading Treatment Program for Nurses with Addiction. – Alcohol and drug dependency affect as many as 15% of our nation’s nurses. Hear their real stories and discover Nurses Lifeline, an addiction treatment progra…

OxyContin abuse: can it be slowed?

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… chronic pain wasn't acknowledged,” Reuter says. “Now oxycodone and methadone has been taken out of the hospital setting and is being used for the prescription treatment of chronic pain.” … more people toward treatment rather than heroin. However …
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'On the Same Page' – Debating incarceration rates and the justice center

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But those statistics prove only what the unequal percentage is. Not why it is. …. We already have a mental health diversion program that is a national model and our substance abuse diversion and treatment programs are also quite good. Sadly, no more …
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The Daily Item: Record year for heroin overdoses in Lynn

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LYNN — Heroin overdoses killed 22 people in Lynn in 2012 — double and in some cases even triple the number of fatalities in previous years — and police and addiction treatment workers said the deadly trend shows no signs of slackening in 2013. Two …
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