‘Recovery Happens’ in Calaveras

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This time last year, life wasn’t so sweet for Robert Barlow of West Point. Barlow was an average single dad with a 10-year-old son, except for a $250-a-month methamphetamine habit and an impending prison sentence.

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Addiction Website Releases New Guide to Help Families through Intervention

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Addiction website releases Intervention Guide, a free publication that provides families with tips, advice, and guidelines for helping a loved one into drug and alcohol treatment.

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Study finds common risk factors link to painkiller addiction

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A new Geisinger study begins to unlock the puzzle of painkiller (opioid) addiction – why some people are more likely to become addicted than others. Geisinger investigators have found that patients with four common risk factors have a significantly higher risk of addiction. In addition, a history of severe drug dependence and drug abuse compounds the risk.

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Innovative Federal Partnership To Study Combat Related Substance Use And Abuse

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Eleven research institutions in 11 states will receive more than $6 million in federal funding from fiscal year 2010 to support research on substance abuse and associated problems among U.S. military personnel, veterans, and their families. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health, is collaborating with the Department of Veterans Affairs, to award …

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Son of president shares his life story

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VALPARAISO — With pictures and anecdotes, television and film actor Steve Ford portrayed life in the White House during the turbulent 1970s, when his father, Gerald R. Ford, assumed the nation’s presidency after Richard M. Nixon resigned. His family stayed in their Alexandria, Va., home for the first week because the Nixons didn’t have time to pack before they left, and he decided to be a ranch …

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