Multi-Million Dollar Effort Underway to Fight Local Drug Addiction and Child Abuse

Multi-million dollar effort underway to fight local drug addiction and child abuse
Filed under: Drug Abuse and Addiction
Governor Steve Beshear has announced a $ 2.5 million grant to help families dealing with both child neglect/ abuse and substance use disorders in Daviess County. The funding is a 5-year grant from the
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NIH study sheds light on how to reset the addicted brain
Filed under: Drug Abuse and Addiction
( NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse ) Could drug addiction treatment of the future be as simple as an on/off switch in the brain? A study in rats has found that stimulating a key part of the brain reduces compulsive cocaine-seeking and suggests the possibility of changing addictive behavior generally.
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Schumer: Tighten controls on painkillers to fight drug abuse
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In an effort to combat the prescription drug and heroin scourge claiming the lives of so many youth in the lower Hudson Valley, U.S. Rep. Charles Schumer proposed new legislation Wednesday to tighten controls of painkillers. The Safe Prescribing Act 2013 seeks to reclassify hydrocodone from a Schedule III to a Schedule II narcotic, requiring a written or electronic prescription from the …
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