Getting clean in Mae Sot

Getting clean in Mae Sot

Filed under: principles of drug addiction treatment

Mae Sot assistant district chief Kriangsak Boontapuan, who is in charge of local security, said Mae Sot is home to several ethnic minority groups and security officials have to keep a close watch on drug-smuggling gangs along the border. "Mae Sot has …
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There's Nothing New About the New Racism

Filed under: principles of drug addiction treatment

The umbrella term for these scourges, “racism,” is the physical and psychological genocide of generations of stolen people, yes, but it is also the root of modern-day drug policy and the for-profit, institutionalization of millions of black and brown …
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Addiction counseling in demand in Oil Patch

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“I think our biggest impact is probably still alcohol and prescription drugs, and probably third to that is methamphetamine,” Ring said. While different drugs have different effects on the body, the principles to treating addiction are the same …
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Medical marijuana has enough signatures for Florida ballot

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Drug abuse opponents, however, contend the measure would lead to spillover use of marijuana for recreational purposes and have vowed to oppose it. Advocates of liberalization of marijuana laws say support for such measures tends to decline somewhat …
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