How Can You Help Someone Struggling With Addiction?

How Can You Help Someone Struggling with Addiction? – Is someone in your life struggling with addiction? Do you know if you should help them, or how? KATU News in Portland, Oregon interviews Hazelden’s Dr. Vern Williams who speaks candidly about what we can do to help a person struggling with addiction, in light of Amy Winehouse’s death. For more information about Hazelden, please visit www.hazelden.org or call 800-257-7810.

Substance abuse making records

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WARRENTON — “There's a fairly high rate of drug and alcohol use in Clatsop County teenagers,” said Eric Martin, a professor and substance abuse expert from the University of Oregon, to the people in the bleachers at Warrenton Grade School. In fact …
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Oregon sues DEA over access to patient drug records

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The drug-monitoring program was established by the Legislature in 2009 to help prevent deadly prescription drug overdoses by curbing the practice of seeking pain medication from multiple doctors. In 2011, 93 … "But particularly prescription drug …
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