Substance abuse, mental health top Calvert's health concerns

Substance abuse, mental health top Calvert's health concerns
An initiative at the county level, he said, is linking mental health treatment with substance abuse treatment. Fifty percent of people who have substance abuse problems have treatable mental health problems, Polsky told the commissioners. Commissioners … Read more on So Md News

OxyContin Tops List of Abused Prescription Drugs: Survey
"Opioids are prescribed to treat pain, but their misuse has risen dramatically in recent years," principal investigator Theodore Cicero, a researcher at Washington University, St. Louis, who studies prescription drug abuse, said in a university news … Read more on HealthDay

Try drug treatment, not prison
Strickland is one of the first graduates of Drug Treatment Court, a pilot project started in February 2009 under two grants by the Bureau of Justice Assistance and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. When Strickland was … Read more on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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