Lit Review: What Psychometric Tools Can Be Used to Assess Drug Abuse?
Lit Review: What psychometric tools can be used to assess drug abuse? – Title: What Psychometric Assessment Tools can be used to Assess Aberrant Drug Use Behaviors Among Non-cancer Chronic Pain Patients? A review of literature. P…
Focus on addicts' welfare, not drug tests, say social workers
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Authorities should put more resources into social welfare organisations and rehabilitation instead of a mandatory drug testing scheme to tackle the city's drug problem, social workers say. They were speaking after a proposal for compulsory drug testing …
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Report: W.Va. has highest rate of fatal overdoses
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But the Trust for America's Health also gives West Virginia high marks for trying to tackle the problem, noting the state is using eight of 10 promising strategies to curb prescription drug abuse. It says only two strategies are lacking: Good Samaritan …
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Ohio judge tries drug to rehabilitate addicted inmates
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Generally, distributing medication for addiction is not a common practice in jails, according to the federal National Institute on Drug Abuse. Orman Hall, director of the Ohio Governor's Opiate Action Team, said he doesn't know of any other jails in …
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Homeless Rx for depression and pain: street drugs
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"A lot of these people are homeless because of drug use," he says. "They start as kids, getting pills from their parents, and then they leave home and after awhile, they become addicts." That's among the scenarios homeless advocates see, says Joel Hunt …
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