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He said alternative development programs “must involve the communities, giving them ownership and the ability to shape programs. The strategy in San Martin has a lot of promise” [Time, USA]
Volume 20, #1 – Winter 2010 [Addiction Treatment Forum, USA]
Medical marijuana advocates in Los Angeles appear to have overreached themselves, angering the City Council by establishing more than a thousand medical marijuana dispensaries in commercial and residential neighborhoods around the city [Addiction Inbox, USA]
While re-entry and skill-building programs offered by the New Jersey Department of Corrections (NJDOC) at its 11 prisons are heavily used and generally viewed favorably by inmates, many anticipate a difficult return to society due to their underlying health conditions and concerns about finances and support systems [Medical News Today, USA]
… it is critical to know the population – its needs, strengths, and resources. Equally critical is awareness of the rehabilitation and reentry capability of the institutions that serve as ‘home’ for this population for years and in many cases decades [Rutgers University, USA]
It has been years in the making, derailed by Congress three times in about as many years, but medicinal marijuana could soon be heading to the nation’s capital [Time, USA]
A little background: Detroit Central City Community Mental Health Inc. is a place for the city’s unemployed, homeless and mentally ill population. Most of its clients have a substance abuse problem. Many are trying to return to “real life” after time in jail or prison [Time, USA]
NIDA addiction research news [National Institute on Drug Abuse]
by William L White: The purpose of this document is twofold. First, it provides an overview of key findings drawn from historical and scientific research on social/professional stigma related to addiction to illicit drugs, with a particular focus on the stigma experienced by people in medication-assisted treatment and long-term medication-assisted recovery [Faces and Voices of Recovery, USA]
The link between cigarette smoking and respiratory disease is irrefutable. But what about pot smoking? [Addiction Inbox, USA]
Peter Marinelli is the Chief Recovery Officer at Origins Recovery Centers, which opened its flagship recovery center on South Padre Island, Texas on August 9, 2009 [Afflicted & Affected, USA]
Mexican cartels, which control most of the cocaine and methamphetamine smuggled into the United States, bring an estimated $25 billion to $40 billion into Mexico from their global operations every year [Washington Post, USA]
It was a medical mystery. In the summer of 2008, a man and woman, both in their 20s and both cocaine users, were separately admitted to a Canadian hospital with unremitting fevers, flulike symptoms and dangerously low white-blood-cell counts [Time, USA]
Volume 1, Issue 1 [Office of National Drug Control Policy, USA]
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has increasingly placed its bets on treating cocaine addiction with a vaccine rather than an anti-craving medication [Addiction Inbox, USA]
Soldiers given morphine soon after sustaining an injury were half as likely as their comrades to later develop post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a study of 700 troops in Iraq and Afghanistan [Join Together, USA]
In the next 10 years, about 150,000 people in the United States will die from liver cancer and end-stage liver disease associated with chronic hepatitis B and hepatitis C [Institute of Medicine, USA]
In 2006, Join Together, a program of the Boston University School of Public Health, published its Blueprint for the States: Policies to Improve the Ways States Organize and Deliver Alcohol and Drug Prevention and Treatment [Maine.gov, USA]
As the legal landscape for patients clears somewhat, the medical one remains confusing, largely because of limited scientific studies [Wall Street Journal, USA]
Despite the Obama administration’s tacit support of more liberal state medical marijuana laws, the federal government still discourages research into the medicinal uses of smoked marijuana [New York Times, USA]
