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Statewide Anti-meth Campaign Underway Mar. 9, 2010 4:59 am GPB GA
New ads will appear statewide aimed to keep Georgia teens from using methamphetamine. Some of those have graphic and shocking images... Read full story...
Missouri to get anti-meth database Mar. 8, 2010 9:14 pm St. Louis Post-Dispatch MO
Missouri, which in 2008 passed a law limiting purchases of a decongestant that doubles as methamphetamine's main ingredient, will soon have a way to better enforce it... Read full story...
New meth tracking database flawed, police officer says Mar. 9, 2010 8:42 am KMOX.com MO
While Gov. Jay Nixon said Monday that a new statewide database will help prevent methamphetamine production, a trooper from the first state to employ the database said it has actually made it more difficult to arrest suspected meth producers... Read full story...
Haz-mat team assists with meth disposal Mar. 9, 2010 12:20 pm Arkcity.net AR
A hazardous materials team was called in from Wichita on Friday to assist in the disposal of methamphetamine production debris found in a ditch, according to a Cowley County Sheriff's Office press release... Read full story...
Crystal Meth Anonymous (CMAA) Mar. 9, 2010 2:35 pm Drug & Alcohol News CA
Methamphetamine Anonymous, has offered help to many of those people. It is a safe, secure and confidential environment, where one can gain strength and hope, from talking about their issues and hearing from others in similar positions... Read full story...
Meth reporting bill stalled in Senate Mar. 8, 2010 9:11 pm Deseret News UT
A bill is winding its way through the Utah Legislature that would force landlords to disclose even trace amounts of methamphetamine contamination on their property to government agencies... Read full story...
Meth problem: 'It's getting worse' Mar. 9, 2010 12:54 pm Greenwood Commonwealth MS
The recent arrests of three suspected methamphetamine makers at a North Greenwood home is another sign that use of the highly addictive and potentially deadly drug is increasing... Read full story...
METH PROTECTION Mar. 9, 2010 KOKC OK
The full Senate approves a measure to ensure greater consumer protection for renters that would require property owners to remediate an apartment, motel room or home used to make meth before it could be rented to anyone... Read full story...
Meth kills families, dreams Mar. 8, 2010 Alva Review/Courier OK
Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics Agent in Charge Wendell Brandenburg tells Alva High School students how meth killed his marriage and destroyed his family... Read full story...
How to catch a smurfer Mar. 9, 2010 Chattanooga Times Free Press TN
Twice a week, Agent Hall, director of the 10th Judicial Meth Task Force, and several of his agents stake out local pharmacies, looking to catch smurfers — people who travel to different pharmacies buying ingredients used to cook meth... 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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