New Substance Abuse Program Helps Rehab Female Offenders

Published December 22, 2012

New Substance Abuse Program Helps Rehab Female Offenders – CDCR launched a new “Trauma Informed Substance Abuse Treatment” Program this year for women at the Leo Chesney Community Correctional Facility. These were the first 200 positions of 2000 that are being placed across California. www.cdcr.ca.gov

Inmate crowding study homes in on drug abuse

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(AP) — West Virginia can likely reduce prison crowding by assessing more quickly the risks posed by offenders and providing substance abuse treatment to those on probation, parole and other community-level supervision, researchers told state officials …
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UAMS Cites Success in Methamphetamine Addiction Treatment

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The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock is celebrating early success in a treatment program for methamphetamine addiction. In its work with InterveXion Therapeutics LLC, UAMS and its partner have … "Many experimental …
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