Achkout – The Way To Rehabilitation – This is a 2 minute video that was prepared for one of our fundraising events in 2012. It focuses on the idea that one’s decision to enter rehabilitation lies within one’s will, and that this decision alone can help one reintegrate into society afterwards and start a new life. Oum el Nour is a Lebanese NGO committed to help individuals overcome drug addiction. Its programs guide, rehabilitate, accompany and follows up drug addicts.

 

Maine doctors requiring random drug tests before writing prescriptions for …

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State leaders and doctors have tried to do something about prescription drug abuse. Most recently, the state created the Prescription Monitoring Program, an electronic database that tracks every patient receiving a controlled substance prescription in …
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Officials: Prescription drug abuse on the rise in Iowa

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Lukan said Iowa is combating this problem through programs such as the prescription-drug monitoring program, which doctors can voluntarily check what medications their patients previously had prescribed to them. The program is an effort to thwart so …
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Tampa Bay High Schools Undergo 3-week Takeover To Combat Prescription …

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The program's mission is to WAKE UP! communities to this serious public health issue. The WAKE UP! program uses science to teach, not preach the consequences of prescription drug abuse. The program deploys a "takeover" approach by providing a …
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