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San Diego County adopts a new substance abuse prevention plan for schools, led by DA Summer Stephan, integrating five drug ...

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A substance abuse or addiction counselor will perform assessments, create treatment plans, give referrals, provide education and counseling, and be on hand to help in a crisis. A counselor also ...

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Substance abuse and behavioral disorder counselors ... the incorporation of behavioral health into the field is upping the ante for education. "The scope of the work has widened," he says ...

This presentation will provide information about harm reduction, which is an approach focused on reducing the risks and ...

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Former One Direction musician Liam Payne died due to multiple traumas and internal and external bleeding caused by a fall, an Argentine prosecutors' office said on Thursday, revealing the first ...

Dr. Yngvild Olsen, an addiction expert at the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, said that states had become much more sophisticated at using different funding ...