“Promoting a Recovery-Friendly Community”: Taos, New Mexico, USA

“Promoting a Recovery-Friendly Community”: Taos, New Mexico, USA – Recovery-Friendly Taos County, USA Thank you Taos County for making the 1st Annual Taos County Substance Abuse Summit on October 24, 2012 a success! We had o…

Patrick Kennedy: 'Speak up' for mental illness

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… campaign he's focusing on: mental health. Earlier this year, Kennedy — now two years sober — joined his cousin Christopher Kennedy Lawford to promote Lawford's book, “Recover to Live: Kick Any Habit, Manage Any Addiction: Your Self-Treatment …
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Women with personality disorders revealed trends for eating disorders

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… Health and Addiction at Oslo University Hospital in Norway, said in an interview. “Our study, which included more than 3,000 men and women consecutively admitted for treatment for personality disorders, lends empirical support to these observations.”.
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Drug Sentencing Reform Bill Passes CA Assembly

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We give non-violent drug offenders long terms, offer them no treatment while they're incarcerated, and then release them back into the community with few job prospects or options to receive an education. S.B. 649 gives local governments the …
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