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Two Teenagers Set a Record for Largest Attempted Meth Smuggling Ever in Yuma Jan. 26, 2010 10:24 am Phoenix New Times AZ
Two teenage girls made history at a border checkpoint in Yuma, but it's hardly a record that will make their families swell with pride. The two unnamed girls, ages 18 and 19, were arrested by border patrol agents for attempting to smuggle 47 pounds of meth into Arizona -- the largest meth-smuggling attempt ever for the Yuma Sector Border Patrol... Read full story...
Meth lab seizures full-time job for Jefferson County police unit Jan. 26, 2010 1:17 pm SuburbanJournals MO
Harvey was one of several participants at the Jan. 20 Methamphetamine Action Coalition (MAC) meeting at the Jefferson County Health Department's Hillsboro office. MAC is a group of law enforcement members, health professionals and other interested entities formed to battle meth in the county... Read full story...
Reno-area Secret Witness gets federal money to fight meth use Jan. 26, 2010 1:40 am Reno Gazette-Journal NV
Secret Witness is receiving $250,000 from the Justice Department to raise awareness through education on the prevention and intervention of methamphetamine abuse in Northern Nevada... Read full story...
Meth diversion program getting second chance Jan. 26, 2010 8:15 am HollandSentinel.com MI
Allegan’s award-winning methamphetamine diversion program is getting a second chance thanks to a Grand Haven based group... Read full story...
Prosecutor Honored For Helping Bust Meth Makers Jan. 26, 2010 10:51 am KCTV5 News MO
A federal prosecutor was honored Tuesday morning for his part in making sure two meth makers were put in jail... Read full story...
Trial opens in case of boy thrown from overpass Jan. 25, 2010 3:26 pm Washington Post HI
A prosecutor claims a Honolulu man was high on crystal meth when he threw a 23-month-old boy to his death from a highway overpass... Read full story...
Meth incidents skyrocket and if that's not enough, heroin is waiting in the wings Jan. 25, 2010 8:58 pm mlive.com MI
I don't know about you but the scariest thing about the Kalamazoo Gazette's recent Rex Hall Jr. story about the methamphetamine problem in southwestern Michigan was this gem: "In the Dec. 11 incident at Bronson Methodist Hospital, a patient being treated at the hospital was visited by two friends, who police said had a duffel bag filled with components used in the one-pot method (of making meth)."... Read full story...
Cold medicine could soon require prescription Jan. 26, 2010 3:50 pm WLBT MS
Law enforcement officials converged on the capitol Tuesday with one message: A meth epidemic is gripping the state... Read full story...
Sundance 2010: 'Winter's Bone' takes audiences into the Ozarks Jan. 25, 2010 5:13 pm Los Angeles Times CA
Based on Daniel Woodrell’s novel and set in Southern Missouri’s Ozark woods, the film follows indomitable 17-year-old Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence) as she scours the pine-strewn hills and hollows near her cabin home in search of her missing meth-cooking father, who put their house up for bond after he was arrested... Read full story...
Access To Recovery
Access to Recovery (ATR) is a three year competitive discretionary grant program funded by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT). ATR is an initiative which provides vouchers to clients for purchase of substance abuse clinical treatment and recovery support services. The goals of the program are to expand capacity, support client choice, and increase the array of faith-based and community based providers for clinical treatment and recovery support services. In 2007, twenty four grantees were awarded an ATR grant after a competitive application process. The program is funded at approximately $98 million per year of which $25 million is set aside to be used to deliver services to individuals with a background of methamphetamine use. For more information please visit www.atr.samhsa.gov.
Access to Recovery Grants Jan. 19, 2010 Join Together
Up to $382 million in Access to Recovery (ATR) grants will be awarded in FY2010 to support treatment voucher programs for individuals with alcohol and other drug problems... Read full story...
SAMHSA is Accepting Applications for $382 Million in Grants for the Access to Recovery Program Jan. 7, 2010 Media Newswire
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration ( SAMHSA ) is accepting applications for fiscal year ( FY ) 2010 for Access to Recovery ( ATR ) grants. The ATR program provides people seeking drug and alcohol treatment with vouchers to pay for a range of appropriate community-based services.... Read full story...
Teen addiction recovery center comes to Oroville Jan. 8, 2010 Oroville Mercury-Register CA
California was awarded a second, three-year Access to Recovery grant from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration for programs... Read full story...
Gazette opinion: Busier crisis center needs ongoing support Dec. 28, 2009 Billings Gazette MT, WY
The center has cobbled together funding from several sources this year: $600,000 from Billings Clinic, about $250,000 from St. Vincent, $294,000 from the state and smaller contracts to provide evaluations for the Billings Municipal Mental Health Treatment Court and to provide addiction counseling for the Access to Recovery program of the Montana Wyoming Tribal Leaders Council... Read full story...
ACCESS TO RECOVERY (ATR) II PROVIDER ALERT (PDF) Jan. 11, 2010 State of Conn. Dept. of Mental Health and Addiction Services CT
Based on the feedback from providers and ATR service recipients, DMHAS will implement the following service modifications effective January 11, 2010... Read full story...
News about RMT ATR January 2010 news update Jan. 1, 2010 Tribal Recovery MT, WY
More than 100 people enjoyed a safe, sober, happy and healthy New Year's Eve in Billings thanks to Marian's Recovery Support, Braided Circle Support Services, and their RMT ATR volunteers... Read full story...
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