'Communities' Include People With Addictions

Published June 14, 2013

'Communities' include people with addictions

Filed under: drug addiction treatment act

The ruling was clear: “applying the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA) to Insite was arbitrary, undermining the very purposes of the CDSA, which include public health and safety. It is also grossly disproportionate: the … Statements from the …
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Serial rapist released by Wash.

Filed under: drug addiction treatment act

"I think he is a despicable human being and he has a problem that is incurable." … The center, operated by the Department of Social and Health Services, provides a specialized mental health treatment program for sex offenders who have completed their …
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LETTER: Mental health keeps growing

Filed under: drug addiction treatment act

I recently heard a report that mental health experts now classify addiction to caffeine as a mental illness, increasing exponentially the number of Americans that are “mentally ill.” Coincidentally, I also recently heard a report that one in five …
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