Cocaine Interventions: Drug-Sniffing Dogs Recruited for Interventions

This is such a novel concept — and so obvious — it’s a wonder it hasn’t been used before! Drug-sniffing dogs used to HELP addicts, rather than jail them…

Until recently, the only drug-detection canines we’ve heard about were gainfully “employed” by Customs and policy departments.

The idea of using drug dogs to during family interventions is a positive step toward helping and treating addicts rather than punishing them with the legal and penal system.

Drug Sniffing Dogs

Northampton MA—On Feb 22, the first 2010 meeting of the Northampton MA City Council Committee on Social Services and Veterans Affairs, Ward 3 Councilor Angela Plassmann announced that she would introduce a local measure to increase fees for public marijuana smoking from $100 to $300 ($150 first offense). She requested and received the support of her fellow committee members. Ward 7 Councilor Eugene Tacy and Plassmann then expressed support for bringing drug-sniffing dogs into the schools. Plassmann said that she wants to gate Northampton’s Great Meadows along the Connecticut River so as to prevent public access, and Councilor LaBarge expressed support for this notion. The Committee talked about plans to invite Police Captain Koncas to a meeting soon in order to provide an “update” on an unspecified topic. Citizen Adam Cohen, in attendance and video recording the meeting, asked the three if the upcoming meeting with Koncas would not be a good venue to raise the issue of the alt-weekly Valley Advocate’s practice of running “escort ads” in its classifieds section. Video shot by citizen Adam Cohen, a political ally of Plassmann’s. Clipped and and republished by Mary Serreze for Northampton Media.

Drug-sniffing dog aids family interventions
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(John McCoy/Daily News Staff Photographer) the drug detection dog to find drugs in private homes and rehab facilities, and doesn’t involve law enforcement. “A service like this would have intervened a lot quicker,” Smith added. …
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County drug scourge spreads far and wide
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What we have done is give them the opportunity to enter into a tough rehabilitation program,” Murphy said. That rehabilitation program is Restoration Ministries in Chicago, Ill. “If they complete the program successfully and stay drug-free for two …
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One addict tells his story
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They came in the forms of alcohol and cocaine. Bucyrus native Jason Brown is in rehab for heroin addiction at CROSSWAEH, a community-based correctional treatment facility in Tiffin. TIFFIN — I was exposed to drugs at a very young age. …
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Film launch for former drug addict
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A man from Solihull who overcame years of drug addiction and started his own media company has now made a film about drug abuse. Jason Turner successfully battled his 22-year dependency on heroin and crack cocaine after completing a recovery programme …
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Changes in HIV risk behaviors among patients receiving combined pharmacological and behavioral interventions for heroin and cocaine dependence [An article from: Addictive Behaviors]

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Cocaine Intervention

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Cocaine use is associated with injecting and sexual HIV risk behaviors. This study was a randomized controlled trial of behavioral interventions for cocaine dependence and HIV risk behaviors among dually (cocaine and her

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Cocaine’s Impact on Affect, Activity, and Reward Are Dose-Dependently Impacted by Age (Substance Abuse Assessment, Interventions and Treatment)

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Cocaine Intervention

This book examines the impact of different doses of cocaine on three interrelated measures related to affective behaviours between adolescent and adult mice in order to assess the range of affective and rewarding responses, measure of despair, activity, and reward were used. Such methods included the forced swim test (FST), motor activity (MA), and the conditioned place preference (CPP) tests, respectively. Cocaine was selected, in part, because of its robust psychostimulant properties, its use

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