The No-Help Cycle: Jail Fails Addicts
… of inmates with substance use disorders participated in mutual support/peer counseling and 14.2 percent received drug education; however, such services alone are unlikely to create lasting behavioral changes among those in need of addiction treatment.
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Tom's sobering challenge: 3100 miles across US to help fight addiction
Tom Fitzsimons was a violent drunk. He started drinking heavily at the age of 13 after his father, a drug addict, choked to death on a bottle of whisky. At his lowest point Tom crawled into his children's bedroom and stole money from their piggy banks …
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Italy to help rehabilitate drug addicts – The Peninsula
The Director of Public Health Department at the Supreme Council of Health, Sheikh Dr Mohammed bin Hamad Al Thani, with Italian delegates and other officials at the press conference at the SCH headquarters yesterday. Kammutty VP. by Azmat Haroon …
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