Reality of Teen Drug Abuse

Reality of Teen Drug Abuse – This video was created in order to show the REALITY of what teen drug abuse is about, not what the common media perception believes and sees it as being. As …

What if Chart History and Verbal History Don't Match?

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The practitioner may also wish to keep in mind that extra consent may be needed for certain psychiatric and substance abuse treatment records. For example, if the medical record is part of a mental health hospitalization, Ohio law provides that such …
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Editorial: Prison is no cure for addiction

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Under section 35 of the state's penal code, a parent or spouse, exasperated over a family member's drug addiction or mental illness, with nowhere else to turn, can ask a state judge to make a “civil commitment.” The petitioners may think it's a way to …
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Addiction medicine discovered at prisons

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“The appropriate use is as a medicine … to ease a person who is addicted to opiates off of those opiates,” said Paul H. Coleman, the president and CEO of Maryhaven, a drug- and alcohol-addiction treatment center.“Obviously, if you're smuggling them …
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