Chesco Officials Call Man "Worst-Case Scenario" in Drug and Alcohol Use

Chesco officials call man "worst-case scenario" in drug and alcohol use

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"If you're using drugs and drinking, this is where it can lead you." In 2006, O'Neill shot and killed his best friend at an underage drinking party. Tried as a juvenile, he was sentenced to a residential-treatment program. He served jail time this year …
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Curemark Announces New Patent Covering Treatment Of Drug And Alcohol …

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27, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — Curemark announced today that it has been granted patent #8,318,158 for its proprietary technology CM-1212 for the treatment of individuals with drug and alcohol addiction. This is the second in a series of … The FDA has …
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NZ's first Alcohol and Drug Court launched

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Justice Minister Judith Collins today officially launched New Zealand's first Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment (AODT) Court in Auckland. Ms Collins says the five-year pilot Court will sit for one day a week in both the Auckland and Waitakere District …
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Alcohol and Drug Training – Helping Supervisors and Employees: Alcohol and Drug Training Course – workexcel.net – Conducting alcohol and drug training either in a live presentation or through some sort of media format must include solid information about alcoholism. Every person over the age of say 16-18 years of age — virtually all adults, can answer the following questions rapidly and with moderate or solid conviction: what is alcohol abuse, what is alcoholism, who is an alcoholic, what causes alcoholism, and how to you treat alcoholism. These questions are packed solid with myths, misconceptions, falsehoods, and complete ignorance. So your alcohol and drug training must focus on these questions in order to “constructively disturb” the participants deeply engrained and maladaptive beliefs about alcoholism and substance abuse in general. This training program does precisely that. My name is Dan Feerst. I have worked in substance abuse for 30 years and I wrote this program to get learners and participants stirring in their seats a little bit, because I borrowed information from things I learned while working in an alcohol and drug treatment program — things that cause patients to say, “Wow, I am an alcoholic for sure!” When conducing alcohol and drug training, this s the impact you want your participants to experience, or if they are not alcoholic, they walk away from training with new attitudes, less willing to enable and more likely to confront family members and friends in denial about their substance abuse. So you will enjoy this alcohol and drug training …