young adults

What's Next for Former Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio as His Prison Term Ends?

What's next for former Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio as his prison term ends?

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Joe Nacchio is scheduled to be a free man Sept. 21, four years and … Nacchio has been able to cut the sentence further through good behavior and by completing an intensive residential drug-treatment program, according to the Bureau of Prisons. During …
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Innovative Addiction Treatment Program for Treatment-Resistant Young Adults

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Officials Clear Transients, Illegal Campsites Behind the Feather River

Officials clear transients, illegal campsites behind the Feather River

Filed under: alcohol and drug treatment programs

Police, city of Oroville staff, Feather River Recreation and Park District workers and a crew of inmates in the Sheriff's Work Alternative Program collaborated on the cleanup operation. Recology donated a garbage bin for the trash. … Most have …
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Kathleen Vinehout: Let's work together to end addiction

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Medicaid Coverage Limits Access to Medications for Painkiller Addicts

Medicaid Coverage Limits Access To Medications For Painkiller Addicts

Filed under: drug addiction treatment

A report commissioned by the American Society of Addiction Medicine found that Medicaid agencies in just 28 states cover all three of medications that the Food and Drug Administration has approved for opioid addiction treatment: methadone …
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Innovative Addiction Treatment Program for Treatment-Resistant Young Adults

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Help in NW Indiana for Son Who’s Depressed and Self Medicates?

Question by dede: Help in NW Indiana for son who’s depressed and self medicates?
Is there any other place in NW IN that has a good dual diagnosis program? He has been clean for four months but is depressed and ready to relaspe.(cocaine and/or heroin was what he used to self medicate.)Has low self-esteem, doesn’t care about anything,carries alot of guilt, and shame for things he’s done to self medicate. Newlywed since May/wonderful girl, new father to a baby girl/October and has a really good job that he likes in sales. Everything to be greatful 4-she/we(family) have alot of trust issues with him as he used to take his checks from previous jobs and go on binges or steal from us. His father is an alcoholic/drug addict. I divorced him when he was 9. He has a loving a and supportive family and a step father that has been there 4 him 4 9 yrs. My son is 25. Has been through alot of jobs until he found this one. Haven’t been able to find a doctor to treat his depression, they always address the substance abuse and not the depression. Need help.

Phillipsburg Native Don Drake Leaves Ring to Help Those Wrestling With Addiction

Phillipsburg native Don Drake leaves ring to help those wrestling with addiction

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When word spread across the Internet that DC Mad Dog Drake had passed away last December, pro wrestling fans flocked to Twitter with their favorite memories of the heel who could whip the crowd into a frenzy with just a glance from his darkened …
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Help available for Okla. teens struggling with addiction

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I’m Stuck in a Rut!!?

Question by Fabbymummy: I’m stuck in a rut!!?
I have 7 standard grades, a NC (national certificate) in pre-nursing, HNC (higher nat.cert) in health care and did 2yrs as a student nurse but had to come out of course due to family commitments at the time. I I don’t know what to do as a job, have been to see a career advisor. My ideal job is working with families as a social worker but I can’t go to uni till my family are a bit older. Is there something like this i could do for now, oviously less pay but working wi kids with issues. I don’t know what kind of job title that would be….anyone got any advise (pls no suggesting nursing homes!)