Catholic Charities/Somerset Comprehensive Family Trt of Addictions
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Bridgewater, NJ 08807
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Treatment & Detox Guide
Don’t drink and drive
We’ve read the 12 page report on “Reducing Drinking and Driving in Europe” by the European Commission — a sort of benchmark in sorting your way through the problem of alcohol-related traffic accidents. But it doesn’t take a report to tell you this: if you drink and drive, someday, somewhere, someone, is bound to die….
Chronic addiction-based offenders must first be separated from society
It’s hard to say 30 strikes and you’re out with a straight face. It sounds like a silly joke. But the astounding truth is that the Vancouver Police Department tracks 379 offenders who have an average of 39 convictions each, primarily for theft and other property crime. Six have more than 100 convictions. These are….
Swiss vote on radical heroin rules
Voters in Switzerland go to the polls on Sunday to decide whether to make a controversial heroin prescription programme a permanent, nationwide health policy. The Swiss government supports the idea but opponents say it encourages drug addiction, and sends the wrong message to young people. Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s Switzerland had one of….
Helping Someone With Alcohol or Drug Problem
If someone confides in you that he or she has a problem with alcohol or other drugs, some ways of dealing with this situation clearly work better than others. You should try to be: Understanding – listen to reasons why he or she uses/ abuses alcohol or other drugs; Firm – explain why you feel….
Recovering Alcoholic Mothers
There are more than two-and-a-half million women alcoholics in America, and many of them are mothers. Two bravely shared their struggles with ABC 7 in the hopes that other moms will get the help that can save them and their families Rebecca Zimmerman was 77 days sober when ABC 7’s Greta Kreuz visited her and….