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Meth recovery: Taking the fight to the streets Mar. 7, 2010 Greeley Tribune CO
Methamphetamine use and manufacture has declined in recent years, but due to the drug's highly addictive nature, the problem remains significant, according to area police... Read full story...
Meth recovery: From prison, a ministry is born Mar. 7, 2010 Greeley Tribune CO
Loved-ones Against Meth Ministries (LAMM), the nonprofit he founded with his wife, Donita, in March 2005, is thriving. He recently led a graduation ceremony at a local coffee shop in which four people, three men and a woman, celebrated being clean and sober after several months in the program. About 100 people brought potluck dishes to toast the occasion... Read full story...
Battles shapes up over St. Louis meth ingredient limit Mar. 6, 2010 11:08 pm St. Louis Post-Dispatch MO
City officials got their first taste last week of the pressure from the pharmaceutical lobby to protect pseudoephedrine products from prescription-only laws intended to combat methamphetamine labs... Read full story...
Coalition's conference theme is 'Dump the Drugs' Mar. 7, 2010 8:52 am Eastern Arizona Courier AZ
The theme of the Graham Anti-Meth Coalition's drug prevention conference is "Dump the Drugs." The all-day conference is April 21 in the Gherald L. Hoopes Jr. Community Center on the Eastern Arizona College campus... Read full story...
Signs of Meth Mar. 7, 2010 Alva Review/Courier OK
Visible signs of meth use include the following... Read full story...
Meth scourge makes law worth trying Mar. 7, 2010 12:15 am Greenwood Commonwealth MS
When the Mississippi Legislature earlier this year passed a law to make some common cold medicines available by prescription only, I was unconvinced this was anything but one more futile gesture in seemingly unwinnable war on drugs... Read full story...
A Member of Local Law Enforcement Turns to Community For Help Mar. 6, 2010 6:58 pm WHIZ News OH
It has been a tough road for the Miller family of New Lexington. Last January, Lt. Eddie Miller with the Perry County Sheriff's Department was apprehending a suspect inside trailer home when he breathed in fumes from meth lab. The fumes paralyzed the right side of his vocal cords and damaged the upper right side of his lung... 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.
Unregulated sober houses are a vital resource Feb. 7, 2010 The Providence Journal RI
So, with her help, MHRH officials began designing protocols that require those sober houses benefiting from ATR money to make sure tenants are at least enrolled in some substance abuse counseling, either at the house or elsewhere, when they move in... Read full story...
New York and Connecticut Drug Rehab Center Mountainside Weighs In on Latest White House Budget Feb. 13, 2010 Behavioral Health Central NY/CT
Previous Drug Czar John Walters and the Bush administration through their Access to Recovery programs helped to expand the footprint of treatment services in communities and we are optimistic that there will be ongoing support of those efforts which have gained traction.\"... Read full story...
Obama Proposes Increased Funding for Treatment and Prevention, but 'Balance' Proves Elusive Goal Feb. 5, 2010 Join Together DC
Also receiving new funds are programs to add new addiction counselors to federal health systems, increase the use of Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment, the Access to Recovery program ($9.9-million budget increase), and $10 million more for drug courts... Read full story...
Training Opportunity March and April CEUs Available ATR New Mexico NM
CounselingWorld, LLC Presents: 6 CEU Ethics In The Modern Counseling World March 13th, 2010... Read full story...
ASI MV Training Alert ATR New Mexico NM
http://www.atrnm.com/cms/kunde/rts/atrnmcom/docs/677212485-02-01-2010-10-39-27l.doc (DOC) Read full story...
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