Treating Addiction as a Public Health Issue, Not a Crime

Published December 8, 2012

Treating addiction as a public health issue, not a crime

Filed under: Cocaine Addiction Treatment Programs

Treating addiction as a public health issue, not a crime … While marijuana, cocaine and heroin use has an international component, the abuse of prescription drugs is largely home-grown. … Why should a drug addiction — to marijuana, cocaine, heroin …
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Man to serve one year in Falls knifing

Filed under: Cocaine Addiction Treatment Programs

LOCKPORT – Lawrence G. Congi, who washed out of court-supervised mental health treatment because of his cocaine addiction, was sentenced to a year in jail Wednesday for knifing a man a year ago in a Niagara Falls motel. Congi, 41, of Niagara Falls …
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