Lansing Follies: Senate Passes Welfare Drug Testing Program

Lansing follies: Senate passes welfare drug testing program
The program required applicants to pass a substance abuse test as a condition of receiving [welfare] benefits. Applicants who tested positive had to participate in substance abuse assessment and comply with a required substance abuse treatment plan.
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Coal leaves deep, wide wake in West Virginia
There at the prep plant, coal is washed and chemically treated before being loaded into the rail cars that snake alongside a tributary of the Coal River. … Coalfield communities that once rode high in boom times now face the grim reality of the …
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Suburban trio's alleged robbery binge driven by heroin
… punish them with withdrawal symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea. "When you're that desperate, you go to amazing lengths to get what you want," said Bill Wilson, director of the Delaware Valley addiction treatment program for Volunteers of America.
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Saving Lives With a Radical Plan
… of Insite and found no harms. In addition to reducing overdose deaths and harmful injection practices that risk infection, thousands of people attending Insite have been referred for addiction treatment, including to a detox facility located in the …
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Dr. Farrell Discusses Using Comprehensive Treatment Plans in Treating Addiction — Dr. Jennifer Farrell, an experienced psychiatrist and addiction medicine specialist who works at Amen Clinic Newport Beach, shares her perspectives on holist…

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