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The New Drug War: As Northern Kentucky faces a heroin epidemic, the local coroner, a family doctor, is at odds with a county judge over a medical solution to the crisis. Film produced by James Doolittle of Center City Film & Video, Philadelphia, Pa.
The city has many neighborhoods below the poverty line, and has experienced a rise in homelessness in recent decades. Social services include cash- and housing-related assistance, case management, treatment for mental health and substance abuse, and legal and budget/credit assistance. Amid food insecurity in Columbus, with several neighborhoods ...
The Drug Free America Foundation ( DFAF) is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization founded in 1976 by former US Ambassador Mel Sembler, [2] his wife Betty Sembler ( née Schlesinger ), and Joseph Zappala [3] as Straight, Inc., [4] renamed The Straight Foundation, Inc. in 1985 and Drug Free America Foundation in 1995. [5] [6]
Drug detoxification. Drug detoxification (informally, detox) is variously construed or interpreted as a type of "medical" intervention or technique in regards to a physical dependence mediated by a drug; as well as the process and experience of a withdrawal syndrome or any of the treatments for acute drug overdose (toxidrome).
Since that time dozens of other organizations have been derived from AA's approach to address problems as varied as drug addiction, compulsive gambling, sex, and overeating. All twelve-step programs utilize a version of AA's suggested twelve steps first published in the 1939 book Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men ...
Detoxification or detoxication ( detox for short) [ 1] is the physiological or medicinal removal of toxic substances from a living organism, including the human body, which is mainly carried out by the liver. Additionally, it can refer to the period of drug withdrawal during which an organism returns to homeostasis after long-term use of an ...
Supervised injection sites are also known as overdose prevention centers (OPCs), [6] supervised injection facilities, [7] safe consumption rooms, [8] safe injection sites, [1] safe injection rooms, [9] fix rooms, [10] fixing rooms, [11] safer injection facilities (SIF), drug consumption facilities (DCF), [2] drug consumption rooms (DCRs), [12] medically supervised injecting centres (MSICs) and ...
Under the guise of helping patients with opioid addiction, these centers would offer addicts free rent or up to $500 per month to stay in their "sober homes", then charge insurance companies as high as $5,000 to $10,000 per test for simple urine tests. [84]