New Substance Abuse Program Helps Rehab Female Offenders – CDCR launched a new “Trauma Informed Substance Abuse Treatment” Program this year for women at the Leo Chesney Community Correctional Facility. These were the first 200 positions of 2000 that are being placed across California. www.cdcr.ca.gov

 

Substance abuse program seeks to create community task force in Glouster

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GLOUSTER — Members of a substance abuse rehabilitation program seek to create a community task force to help address a long-standing drug problem in Glouster. A group met Thursday at the Glouster Public Library to discuss needs and strategies.
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State strategy places substance abuse emphasis where it belongs

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Unfortunately, our emergency rooms, jails, homeless shelters and prisons have become an expensive alternative to treatment for so many suffering the chronic illness of substance abuse. This is particularly unfortunate when we have so many quality …
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Report: Region tops nation for drug-tied ER visits

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Lawmakers in 2010 voted to apply the state's 6.25 percent sales tax to alcohol purchases and earmarked the more than $ 100 million raised from the tax to substance abuse programs. However, voters that same year responded to the appeals from small …
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