Our Opinion: Treatment Courts Save Tax Money, Restore Lives
Our Opinion: Treatment courts save tax money, restore lives
Filed under: drug rehab treatment programs
More than 12,000 defendants have completed substance abuse programs successfully in Missouri's 20-year history of the courts. • Among adults who complete drug court, 7.1 percent re-offend within the next 30 months, about half the 15 percent recidivism …
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Gerry Anderson dies: Thunderbirds creator went to war with his real Lady …
Filed under: drug rehab treatment programs
Thunderbirds creator Gerry Anderson decided to donate his brain for medical research after realising the drugs he was taking to treat his Alzheimer's disease were having little effect. The celebrated television director who died on Boxing Day at the …
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FDA approves three new drug treatments for type 2 diabetes
Filed under: drug rehab treatment programs
"Controlling blood sugar levels is very important in the overall treatment and care of diabetes," said Mary Parks, M.D., director of the Division of Metabolism and Endocrinology Products in the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. … The FDA …
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Progress made, but drug war continues
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Earl Ray Tomblin unwrapped the report of his Advisory Council on Substance Abuse, one that leans to a great extent on funding abuse treatment efforts in six specific regions of the state. Not only should existing centers be maintained, but the council …
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