“We Should Continue to Provide Treatment to Addicts,” Drug Czar Says

“We Should Continue to Provide Treatment to Addicts,” Drug Czar Says
The Miami Herald reported in Drug czar: Treat addiction as public health issue, on 7/18, that National Drug Control Policy Director R. Gil Kerlikowske told a group of 700 people at a conference that drug abuse is a brain disease and we should continue … Read more on PR Web (press release)

What to do when judges turn bad
According to the most recent annual report of the Illinois Lawyers Assistance Program, which helps find treatment for attorneys, 299 new cases were opened during the most recent fiscal year — the most of any time in the agency's 32-year history. Janet … Read more on Quincy Journal

Where do you turn when you've hit rock bottom?
Drug-treatment strategies have come under scrutiny in the wake of the death of 31-year-old Canadian actor Cory Monteith, star of the hit TV series Glee, from a heroin and alcohol overdose. Monteith had … In an article in Scientific American following … Read more on Calgary Herald