Spokane Drug Addicts Plead With State Lawmakers

Spokane Drug Addicts Plead With State Lawmakers – Washington State’s billion budget shortfall has addicts in Spokane pleading with lawmakers to save rehab programs. KXLY4’s Ian Cull reports.

Marijuana can also cause vomiting, make kids sick

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In other states, marijuana can be used for a wide variety of problems, and in Colorado and Washington state it is cleared for recreational use. Those states that decriminalized the drug saw a 30 percent increase per year from 2005 to 2011 in calls to …
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Embrace integration of behavioral health care

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Washington State Community Health Centers (CHC) report that nearly two-thirds of the newly eligible adults expected to enroll by the end of 2015 have already signed up. And more than 50,000 others, mostly children, have received coverage after they …
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To Lock up, or Not to Jail?

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[Note: Again, real national-level news from a small town, Spokane, in a small state, Washington. This is … If not a new one, then at least a jail makeover on the scale of a Martha Stewart-on-steroids rehab-retrofit- remodel. “Spokane … The sheriff …
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Newport man sentenced for having sex with 15-year-old

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He ordered Dye to be transported to the Washington County Jail immediately after sentencing. After five and a half months, Dye is eligible for transfer into the SEPTA rehabilitation center in Nelsonville to complete alcohol treatment once a bed becomes …
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