Rep. Jay Neal Reflects on Addiction Recovery Awareness Day 2009
Rep. Jay Neal Reflects on Addiction Recovery Awareness Day 2009 – State Representative Jay Neal, House District 1 provides a legislative update from the georgia general assembly on Friday, January 16, 2009. This update features thoughts from Addiction Recovery Awareness Day, the appropriation of funds through state budget, the advantages of rehabilitation versus incarceration for non violent drug offenders, the recidivism rate for drug addicts.
Reduce HIV by trading syringes with addicts?
Filed under: state funded drug rehab
They hoped to speak with intravenous drug users and sex workers, give away injection paraphernalia and safe-sex kits and encourage addicts to enter treatment. They go … Because the state's drug paraphernalia law criminalizes the possession of …
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Teen gunman Benjamin Bishop: Rage drove him to kill, gun laws were no obstacle
Filed under: state funded drug rehab
Over three months in 2011, Bishop was detained four times under the Baker Act. He went off to drug rehab. … There is no federal law, and no law in the state of Florida, requiring background checks for ammunition purchases. … Among the provisions …
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Coles County Telecare announces February programs and services
Filed under: state funded drug rehab
Telecare staff can assist any older adult or representative with: answering questions regarding any local, state, or federal program; explaining changes in benefits; making phone calls on the client's behalf to other agencies; assisting in emergency …
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