Obama Drug Czar Wants Treatment and Arrests at the Same Time

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That's the message that the Obama administration put forth today with its new drug strategy. But if you're expecting an end to the drug war, these policy changes aren't it. The plan focuses on treating drug addiction as a health problem, but it doesn't …
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Employer entitled to fire employee who lied about prior drug abuse and …

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Lehigh Valley Hospital involved a security guard who was injured on the job and treated by the hospital's emergency room. During this visit, he disclosed that he had received treatment for drug addiction. The ER forwarded this information to the …
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Brooke Mueller Seeking Treatment for Prescription Drug Abuse

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Mueller will be there for several more days, adds Honig, before she most likely transitions "directly into a residential treatment facility to get help for prescription drug abuse." "Brooke misses her children and wants to get healthy so she can resume …
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Everything You Think You Know About Addiction Is Wrong

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Sheff says the total cost of drug abuse in the U.S. is more than $ 400 billion a year.) Explains Sheff, “If we stopped looking at people as criminals or degenerate or weak-willed, and we started looking at them as ill, we would treat them and treat them …
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