SPECIAL SERIES: A Soft Launch Into Recovery

Published March 29, 2013

SPECIAL SERIES: A soft launch into recovery

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Watts spoke with others, such as addictions expert Michael Wilson, and hatched a plan for a sobering centre, where people could come off drugs and/or alcohol in a more clinical environment. Surrey could provide the land, B.C. Housing the structure, and …
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Towns await state regs on medical marijuana

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Advocates for and against the use of marijuana as medicine have offered their input to the DPH as it has worked to create its draft regulations. Among those waiting … They were drugs Mrs. Jones wanted to get off of, especially after a drug …
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We Need to Rethink Rehab

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I learned that no one actually knows how often treatment works, but an oft-quoted number of those who abstain from using for a year after rehab is 30 percent. CAN YOU SEND A LINK? Even that figure is probably high. “The therapeutic community claims a …
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