Editorial | Pass the Good Bills, Kill the Bad Ones

Published March 10, 2013

Editorial | Pass the good bills, kill the bad ones

Filed under: drug addiction treatment programs

House Bill 217, an effort to clean up legislation lawmakers passed last year (in a special session) to try to curb prescription drug abuse and crack down on so-called “pill mill” clinics that prescribe narcotic drugs. HB 217 won final passage Monday …
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More Guard soldiers dying of car crashes, suicide than combat

Filed under: drug addiction treatment programs

Brown began to abuse his prescription drugs as well as illegal substances, in an effort, his mother says, to self-medicate his pain. Brown-Nichols said she tried desperately to get him into a residential PTSD and substance abuse treatment program at …
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Maryland Lawmakers Schedule Marijuana Legalization Hearing

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Tax revenue would go to fund treatment programs to prevent alcohol, tobacco and other drug abuse. “Every objective study on marijuana has concluded that it is far less harmful than alcohol for the consumer and the surrounding community,” said Dan …
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