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Rethinking addiction: Expanding treatment isn't enough
A report last week that the University of Maryland Medical Center is one of 10 hospitals across the country this year that will begin offering new residency programs in addiction medicine is welcome news for Baltimore, which for decades has suffered...Tags: Betty Ford, Methadone (drug), Mental Health, Heroin, Substance Abuse
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Owner of sober home in Catonsville faces off with county
It started with a complaint, likely from a neighbor. Then there was a police drug raid, which turned up nothing. Then a string of citations, the last one for $4,000 and counting. There's been one administrative hearing; there will be another one Monday,...Tags: Laws, Judges, Baltimore County, File Sharing, Ellicott City
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Making an impact
When a judge slammed his gavel and took away Danny Brannon's freedom five years ago, the newly convicted robber and longtime addict was frantic. With no access to drugs or alcohol to feed his addictions and no way to scam people out of money, how would he...Tags: Prisons, Annapolis, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Drunk Driving, Paul McCartney
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Hearing on Catonsville sober house postponed
An administrative hearing on a house in Catonsville for people recovering from alcohol and drug addictions that Baltimore County has cited multiple times for being an illegal rooming and boarding house, originally scheduled for Monday, Nov. 7, has been...Tags: Lawyers, Rental Service, Baltimore County, Federal Housing Administration, Substance Abuse
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Sigmund Freud, William Halsted and cocaine addiction
Howard Markel's "An Anatomy of Addiction" starts, like a shot, on May 5,1884. A Bellevue Hospital orderly summons Dr. William Stewart Halsted to save the leg of a laborer who has fallen from a scaffolding.
Famous for the speed and virtuosity of his...Tags: History (tv network), Johns Hopkins Hospital, Skin, Substance Abuse, Science
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Support groups meeting in Howard County
These groups meet regularly. ALS Resource support group — First Saturday, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Educational support for ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) patients, family members and friends. Owen Brown Interfaith Center, Conference Room 116B, 7246 Cradlerock...Tags: Bipolar Disorder, Anglicanism, Lou Gehrig's Disease, Howard County, Ellicott City
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Oxycontin in suburbia
Mention the war on drugs, and most people conjure up images of poor inner-city neighborhoods terrorized by desperate addicts and violent drug gangs. But addiction isn't just big-city problem. Across the country, rural and suburban communities are waging...Tags: Aberdeen, Judges, Heroin, Substance Abuse, Theft
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Screening addicts the bane of the suburban doctor
Your editorial on prescription drug abuse in suburbia ("OxyContin in suburbia," July 31) was spot on. I live in Harford County and I know this has become a major headache to law enforcement here. In reply to your editorial, Tina Regester of Bel Air,...Tags: Methadone (drug), Biofeedback, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Injuries and Wounds, Physical Therapy
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Methadone clinic denied zoning exception in Aberdeen
Aberdeen's city planning commission Wednesday denied a request from the operator of methadone clinic to open in a district zoned for manufacturing. The commission's action, which could still be overturned by the city council, comes at a time when local...Tags: Aberdeen, Methadone (drug), Harford County, Cocaine, Heroin
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Once upon a time, when Michael Jackson channeled the gods...
Once upon a time, there was a boy who channeled the gods.
He invoked them through his feet, moving without friction across the gleam of a thousand stages. They possessed him though his voice, now rough like bark, now sweet like butter and brimming...Tags: Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson, Drugs and Medicines, Health and Medical Professionals, YouTube
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BBH sells W. Pratt Street campus for $3 million
Baltimore Behavioral Health Inc. has sold its West Pratt Street campus to an affiliate of the Abell Foundation for $3 million, according to a recently filed deed, a move that the struggling mental health clinic had long sought as a way to help stabilize...Tags: Laws, Medicaid, Mental Health, Behavioral Conditions, Hospitals and Clinics
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Sympathy for the smokers
Editor: Regarding the letter by Phil Brainard, of Aberdeen, in response to my previous letter entitled "Steaming Over Smoking Ban," thank you for your rebuttal. That's the way democracy is supposed to work. I do,however have to take issue with some of...Tags: Quitting Smoking, Chantix (drug), Behavioral Conditions, Lung Cancer, Behavioral Conditions
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