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Report: Sex Offenders Allowed to Work as Calif. Substance Abuse Counselors

Report: Sex offenders allowed to work as Calif. substance abuse counselors

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Unlike most large states, California does not require criminal or other background checks for drug and alcohol abuse counselors. The agency that regulates the counselors, the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs, also does not track arrests or …
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Fatal Fire In Oshkosh

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Treating Drug-Dependent Babies – WWLP.com

Treating drug-dependent babies – WWLP.com

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The baby is one of many infants born dependent on drugs. He is being treated at East Tennessee Children's Hospital in Knoxville, where doctors and nurses are on the front lines fighting the nation's prescription drug epidemic. Drug abuse in the state …
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Brooklyn Treatment Court: A Second Chance for Drug Offenders

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Lessons From the States: Reducing Recidivism and Curbing Corrections Costs

Lessons from the States: Reducing Recidivism and Curbing Corrections Costs

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Additionally, analyzing the need for, and access to, various services (including substance abuse and mental health treatment programs and resources critical to reducing recidivism ensures that services are deployed where they are most needed. To have a …
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Michigan moving closer to drug testing welfare recipients

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Whoopi Goldberg — Generous, Honest, Spontaneous, Uncompromising

Whoopi Goldberg — Generous, Honest, Spontaneous, Uncompromising

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From an SRO crowd in less than two hours of chat to aid people who need psychiatric help. At the Maria Droste Counseling Service, they pay what they can. Whoopi rushed … I had formulated a lot of questions about how she had struggled to overcome not …
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Dynamic 'Disconnect'

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WTF!?: NC Teens May Soon Need Parental Consent for STI, Mental-Health and

WTF!?: NC teens may soon need parental consent for STI, mental-health and

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… astoundingly fast pace is a Republican bill passed by the House Health and Human Services Committee on Tuesday that would require teenagers get their parents' permission before receiving treatment for substance abuse, mental-health issues or STIs.
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Study Finds Parents Unaware Dangers of Prescription Addiction in Teens

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Schools Take on Social Work Amid High Unemployment, Drug Abuse

Schools Take On Social Work Amid High Unemployment, Drug Abuse

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"In addition to reading, writing and arithmetic, we're also acting as their parents," principal Florisha Christian McGuire said as she walked through the halls in War's Southside School. … It's not as though McDowell County is a stranger to outsiders …
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Block where women found a friendly, careful place – Daily Herald

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