Meeting to Focus on Improving Area's Mental Health Safety Net
Meeting to focus on improving area's mental health safety net
Filed under: drug abuse treatment plans
… Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, one in five Americans experiences some sort of mental illness in a given year. However, only about 60 percent get treatment. … from 2002 to 2010, the Vermilion County rate of 12.4 percent was still …
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Antidepressants top insurers' list of most prescribed meds in North Texas
Filed under: drug abuse treatment plans
As I wrote in this week's print edition, antidepressants have become one of the most widely prescribed drugs in North Texas employer health plans. And for the most part, employers are paying the bills for … $ 130 million for mental health services for …
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Paper bag holds key to escape from drug abyss
Filed under: drug abuse treatment plans
He continued to backslide into heroin abuse for the first two years of his treatment, but the battle becomes easier with every day. Any reformed addict will tell you he is just that – reformed, but still an addict. Michael can now proudly say he has …
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British photographer documents lives outside the lines
Filed under: drug abuse treatment plans
“They told me of their dreams of a way out of the slum through boxing and their pride that they were doing something so positive when it would be so easy for them to fall into crime or alcohol or drug abuse.” Two recent projects have … “I find it …
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