Teen Substance Abuse Treatment – Advice to Other Teens – Center for Discovery

Teen Substance Abuse Treatment – Advice to other teens – Center for Discovery – A client of Center for Discovery offers her advice to other teens and adolescents dealing with substance abuse problems. She talks about how the Center for D…

Portsmouth school officials on drug abuse: More help needed from parents

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PORTSMOUTH — The fight against youth substance abuse is headed to the middle school, but the battle will be lost without the help of parents, school and public safety officials say. "Kids don't start dropping out of school in high school. They start …
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Teen's escape from OC juvenile center probed after fatal crash

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The center also treats offenders for substance addiction. The facility is not guarded, so Soriano could have left fairly easily. Harrison said staffers are trained to immediately call the Juvenile Court when a youth escapes, so an arrest warrant can be …
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We aren't winning 40-year war on drugs

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In 1971, President Richard Nixon first declared a national “war on drugs,” asking for $ 84 million as he told Congress that drug abuse had “assumed the dimensions of a national emergency.” President Ronald Reagan … The higher prices they get for drugs …
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