How to Halt Epidemic Rise in Heroin Use

How to halt epidemic rise in heroin use

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Her organization has inpatient and outpatient facilities throughout the region that specialize in treating drug addicts and the mentally ill. One of the fastest-growing populations among drug users assisted by Horizon, she says, are those addicted to …
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The Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act could help save lives

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The Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act (H.R. 3717) would expand the authority of courts and treatment centers to enroll the seriously mentally ill in assisted out-patient treatment plans and to enforce their implementation, thereby reducing …
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Mental Health Patients up to Four Times More Likely to Be Infected with HIV

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… women) seeking treatment for symptoms, including depression, psychosis, and substance abuse, at university-based inpatient psychiatry units, intensive case-management programs, and community mental health centers from January 2009 to August 2011 …
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