How Can I Help a Friend With Drug Addiction Get Help? – Betty Ford Center Q&A

Published April 12, 2013

How can I help a friend with drug addiction get help? – Betty Ford Center Q&A – Dr. James West, former medical director of the Betty Ford Center, discusses options for people experiencing drug addiction.

Cincinnati program offers addicted moms help, hope

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Their mothers are in Good Samaritan Hospital's HOPE program — Helping Opiate-addicted Pregnant women Evolve — which hospital officials started five years ago as a way to help drug-dependent mothers get clean. "These babies pull at your heartstrings," …
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A shortsighted 'cure' for prescription meds' abuse

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Supporters say this squares with research suggesting the drugs lose their effectiveness over time and carry a high risk of addiction. But I made the point in my … "Please help us persuade them not to take away our needed Meds." And Louis Brandt of …
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