SWFAS elects officers for 2011

Published January 22, 2011

SWFAS elects officers for 2011
Southwest Florida Addiction Services has elected officers for 2011. They include President – Andrea Fraser-Laster, assistant attorney in the Lee County Attorney’s Office; Vice-President Dena Geraghty, Lee County Dependency and Juvenile Drug Court; Secretary William Keyes, attorney at law; and Treasurer Geoffrey Roepstorff, Edison National Bank.
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Health chief lays out revamped oversight for addiction and mental health clinics
The state’s top health official laid out new oversight measures Thursday aimed at better policing taxpayer-funded drug treatment and mental health providers. Among the steps Health Secretary Joshua M. Sharfstein presented to lawmakers: monitoring the federal tax filings of nonprofit providers to look for questionable executive salaries and scrutinizing the medical diagnoses of clinics whose …
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Major breakthrough: Genome-based medicine for treatment of alcoholism
For the first time in alcohol addiction research, UVA investigators have successfully treated alcohol-dependent individuals with medication that is tailored specifically to match their genetic profile.
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