New Hunterdon Program Provides Help to Drug Users

New Hunterdon program provides help to drug users

Filed under: drug abuse treatment centers

The START (Steps to Action Recovery and Treatment) program provides information that can help a drug user start a healthy lifestyle when they are on their own, according to Hunterdon County Prosecutor Anthony P. Kearns III. The packets will be given to …
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Study: Alcohol plays 'major role' in road fatalities

Filed under: drug abuse treatment centers

… that amongst all new clients (n=149) assessed for substance use dependence or abuse in 2012, 73 indicated alcohol as their drug of choice; and of those persons referred for residential treatment services, at both the Men's and Women's Treatment …
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Watertown man sentenced to prison for cocaine sale

Filed under: drug abuse treatment centers

He admitted violating probation by continuing to use synthetic drugs, commonly known as bath salts, while under supervision and by failing to follow through with substance abuse treatment recommendations. Scott L. Thomas, 31, whose last known … Ms …
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State fined 0k for man's overdose at treatment center

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Jeffrey S. Harbin checked himself in to a state drug treatment center to break his addiction. He was dead days later, poisoned by methadone at the R. J. Blackley Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Center in Butner. More than four years after his August …
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