How offenders are sentenced in England and Wales – An overview of how sentencing works in England and Wales, the types of sentence offenders can get and how judges and magistrates go about working out what sentence to give someone convicted of a criminal offence. For more information on sentencing, please visit sentencingcouncil.judiciary.gov.uk

 

Recovery Kentucky centers use a supportive program in which the clients hold …

Filed under: treatments for drug addiction

Oregon is spending more on treating drug abuse and finds the investment is saving money — as well as lives. Last Sunday: Kentucky, which has one of the nation's worst prescription-drug addiction problems, has a treatment system that is severely lacking.
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Treatment USA Launches New Website To Celebrate Their 5th Year of Helping …

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The new website has hundreds of articles about treatment for drug addiction and treatment for alcohol addiction as well as detox, sober living, and every stage in between. Additionally, Treatment USA's new site organized all of the resources into …
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Addicted to prescription drugs? There's a prescription drug for that

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Though methadone and the nicotine patch are two examples of drug treatments widely used to treat forms of drug addiction, the push to produce addiction-killing pharmaceuticals is relatively new. The drug Campral, intended to combat alcoholism, was …
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