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Jewish Center for Addiction

Jewish Center for Addiction

Filed under: Illinois Drug Treatment Centers

Between 2008 and 2010, the number of heroin-related emergency room treatments for people under 20 years old rose to more than 27 percent in Illinois. According to the Chicago Tribune, in 2011 there was a 78 percent increase in felony drug arrests among …
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Friday's Sports Transactions

Filed under: Illinois Drug Treatment Centers

COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE Suspended Cleveland RHP Dillon Howard (AZL Indians) 50 games for testing positive for an amphetamine in violation of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. … DETROIT TIGERS Assigned RHP Jose Valverde outright to …
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Pfizer, Novartis May Join Amgen in Bidding for Onyx: Sources

Pfizer, Novartis may join Amgen in bidding for Onyx: sources

Filed under: Chicago Drug Treatment

Onyx sells Nexavar, a treatment for liver and kidney cancer, and the new colon cancer drug Stivarga – both in partnership with Germany's Bayer. Onyx last year began selling Krypolis, which some analysts estimate will reach peak annual sales of $ 3 billion.
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US stocks turn lower after Egypt turmoil worsens

Filed under: Chicago Drug Treatment

Can a Patient Be Turned in for Alcohol And/or Drug Abuse?

Question by wOW ReALLY: Can a patient be turned in for alcohol and/or drug abuse?
Can a doc turn his patient in for alcohol or drug abuse to the police or social services?

Best answer:

Answer by Danim Morem
No. It is their job to diagnose you and to treat you in any way possible. It is a good thing to mention to your doctor if you had recently consumed or used any form of alcohol or drug to help with diagnosis, but they legally cannot turn you in as it is part of their doctor-patient confidentiality guidelines.

Bruises Left on Chicago's LGBTQ Community by Violence

Bruises left on Chicago's LGBTQ community by violence

Filed under: Chicago Drug Abuse

She sees cases of self-inflicted personal violence, in which people inflict harm on themselves, and the structural violence that marginalizes people along with the violence imposed upon those people. Self-harm, she explains, includes drug and tobacco …
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The supervised after-prom party: Now with cars, iPads and other goodies

Filed under: Chicago Drug Abuse

Addict Shoots for Bigger Things Now

Addict shoots for bigger things now

Filed under: drug addiction help washington

For more than two decades, Timothy Gulley walked through life under the suffocating cloud of drug addiction. The 52-year-old electrician was in and out of jail and struggled to hold onto a job as he chased his next high. Many nights his mother refused …
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Struggling women sad, angry over sale of nonprofit Ohio home that will become

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Press Conference: A WOMAN and WAR Director and Cast Talk About Their

Press Conference: A WOMAN AND WAR Director And Cast Talk About Their

Filed under: drug addiction movies

Noriko Eguchi, who has worked on many independent feature films and is a regular on Japanese television screens, plays a former prostitute who is unable to experience pleasure while making love. Masatoshi Nagase has been acting for 30 years and has …
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Jane Fonda sparked a fitness craze at a time when it was still unacceptable

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