URI101: Substance Abuse and Prevention Services

Published April 7, 2013

URI101: Substance Abuse and Prevention Services – Dan Graney from URI Substance Abuse and Prevention Services addresses URI 101 Mentors about alcohol use and incoming freshman.

Maine reps back bill to legalize marijuana use

Filed under: substance abuse prevention

Legalizing marijuana deeply concerns Sally Manninen, substance abuse prevention coordinator for the Center for Community Health at York Hospital. Manninen said teenagers can face anywhere from a 17 to 50 percent addiction rate from pot, depending on …
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Montana tribes seek solutions to reducing suicides

Filed under: substance abuse prevention

“There is a crisis out there,” said Don Wetzel Jr., a member of the Blackfeet Tribe who spent 14 years working for the Montana-Wyoming Tribal Leaders Council where he led a suicide prevention program. “There's a lot of drug and alcohol abuse out there …
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