Personal Perspectives On Teen Drug Abuse

Personal Perspectives On Teen Drug Abuse – Teenagers struggling through recovery from drug addiction discuss their challenges, and adults who abused as teens talk about their paths to eliminating drugs from their lives. This segment aired on South Dakota Focus during the topic of teen drug trends on Thursday, December 15, 2011. View the full program and additional materials at South Dakota Public Broadcasting’s website, SDPB.org.

Study examines substance abuse in child welfare

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Traube is also hopeful that knowledge gained from the project will inform efforts to tailor existing substance abuse recovery programs to specific needs of the child welfare population. Other USC-affiliated scholars involved with the study included …
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Riley Regan, Pioneer and Advocate in Alcoholism and Drug Treatment

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In June of 2002, he came out of retirement to become the Director of the New Hampshire Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention and Recovery. During his seven years of retirement, Mr. Regan was the Chairman of the Kokomo, Indiana Mayor's Task …
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For Moore, this season certainly a success

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On the other end was his mom, Doris Moore, a woman with a history of drug abuse who always resisted her middle son's efforts to convince her she needed rehab. "One day she finally called me and said, 'I'm ready, I'll do it,''' D.J. said. "I didn't want …
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