Rep. Trey Radel busted in cocaine sting
It offers me an opportunity to seek treatment and counseling. I know I have a problem and will do whatever is necessary to overcome it, hopefully setting an example for others struggling with this disease." Radel, 37, represents Florida's 19th …
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Drug Addiction Rehab Center Coming To Port LaBelle Inn?
LABELLE, FL. — A large non-profit organization may be planning to house drug addicts and the homeless at the 47-room Port LaBelle Inn. Applications filed with Hendry County indicate Saint Matthews House of Collier county wants to change the property …
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Rep. Trey Radel pleads guilty to cocaine charge
The freshman congressman, who represents a solidly Republican district in southwest Florida, said at his court appearance that he'll enter a rehab program. He will also pay a … Y., who was convicted in 1982 on charges of drug possession and tax evasion.
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Video: Tour Ottawa's newest drug treatment centre, Recovery Ottawa
The 43-year-old, who wouldn't give his last name, spoke at the clinic's grand opening Tuesday and while holding back tears, told his grim life story – a story riddled with crime, jail time, drug abuse and life on the streets. He's been sober a year and …
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Long road to substance abuse treatment for NH Medicaid patients will soon be …
Hassan and Toumpas's commitment to moving forward is the culmination of a years-long roller coaster for substance abuse treatment advocates in the state. The federal Medicaid program requires states to cover medically necessary inpatient detox treatment.
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Horizon Health opens Sanborn facility
The program is open to men with any military experience with a chemical dependence diagnosis, including those who have struggled with outpatient and/or 28-day inpatient programs. Clients treated at the site may also come in with substance-abuse …
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California Recovery Center Starts Special Program For Videogame Dependency
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Nov. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Morningside Recovery, a leading substance abuse and mental health recovery center in Southern California, has founded a highly unique, all-inclusive recovery program focusing on compulsive …
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Eating Recovery Center changes name, expanding facility
The Sacramento-based Summit Eating Disorders and Outreach Program changed its name to Eating Recovery Center of California, a year after quietly being acquired. "For us, as a local organization, this offers an opportunity to refer patients who need a …
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Crews respond to fire at recovery center
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Jacksonville Treatment Center Presents New Video Informing People About …
… (PRWEB) November 06, 2013. A Jacksonville treatment center dealing with drug and alcohol addiction is pleased to announce that a new video on its services has been launched at Drug Addiction Treatment Centers for Jacksonville and surrounding cities.
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Bossier has rare substance abuse treatment center for pregnant women
Bill Rose said many of the women have drug and alcohol addictions, but they're seeing an increase in women with meth and pain medication addictions. If the women were not in the treatment facility, Rose said some of them would be homeless with their …
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Question by satankitty: How much can drugs harm a baby during the first month of pregnancy?
I found out I was pregnant 2 days ago. In the past few weeks I have taken 1 (possibly 2) ecxtasy pills, drank beer, smoked ciggarettes on a daily basis, and smoked one joint of marijuana. I’m thinking of keeping the baby, so I’m not going to do those things anymore. I’m just wondering if anyone can tell me the chances of the baby comming out deformed or retarted? Thank you.

Best answer:

Answer by Miss Morgan
Think about it this way, That first month is when the blue prints for your baby are being drawn up in a way. Everything that your baby will be is already mapped out in the first month or so. Good Luck.

Answer by Bailey’s Mom 🙂
Just “say no to drugs” Here is why:

Fetal Abuse
A growing number of women are being criminally prosecuted or having their children taken from them for doing drugs while pregnant.

The trend is deeply alarming to women’s rights advocates and health-care workers, who warn that such a heavy-handed approach will only deter drug-addicted mothers-to-be from seeking out prenatal care. Moreover, many warn, such tactics may be paving the way for abortion — the ultimate violation of “fetal rights” — to legally be declared murder.

“These cases represent the intersection of the war on drugs and the war on abortion,” says Lynn Paltrow, director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women, who has successfully helped argue against dozens of similar prosecutions in the last decade. “There may have been a temporary lull, but the issue has not gone away.”

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, spurred by hyperventilating news stories warning of a coming deluge of “crack babies,” prosecutors in more than 30 states sought to stem the anticipated flood by charging scores of drug-using pregnant women with everything from child abuse to manslaughter. In nearly all cases, however, judges eventually threw out those prosecutions, in part because the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision had firmly established that a fetus is not a person in the eyes of the law.

But in the last year, a fresh crop of fetal-rights cases have sprung up. In April, a 26-year-old Texas woman was indicted for child endangerment after her newborn tested positive for cocaine. The same month, a Pennsylvania judge ruled that prosecutors could charge an addicted mother with child endangerment for using heroin while pregnant — even if her baby was born healthy. This spring, the Oklahoma state legislature nearly passed a bill making it a misdemeanor for pregnant drug abusers to fail to get substance-abuse treatment. And in Georgia, 21-year-old Shannon Moss is facing murder charges for allegedly killing her fetus by taking cocaine and amphetamines while pregnant.

Moreover, in recent years at least 17 states have enacted civil laws making it possible for authorities to take away the children of pregnant women who test positive for drugs. The Ohio Supreme Court may take up the issue soon. So far, hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of children have been taken from their mothers as the result of a single positive drug test, according to the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy.

The most bitter battleground, however, is South Carolina, the only state so far to have explicitly extended criminal child-abuse laws to cover fetuses. Despite directly contrary rulings in numerous other states, South Carolina’s Supreme Court declared in 1997 that drug-using pregnant women can be prosecuted criminally — and sentenced to as much as 10 years in prison.

Dozens of women have since been charged. Just last March, one woman was sentenced to three years in prison for violating her probation by “abusing” her unborn child with cocaine, and another drew a five-year suspended sentence for smoking marijuana while pregnant.

Such prosecutions were pioneered 11 years ago with the help of the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, where zealous hospital officials started a program of testing pregnant women for drug use, and turning over their findings to police. The US Supreme Court will rule later this year on whether that practice violated the women’s Fourth Amendment right of protection against unreasonable searches.

Those who prosecute pregnant drug users say they have everyone’s best interests at heart. “I just want the babies to be safe,” says Tommy Pope, chief prosecutor for South Carolina’s York and Union Counties, where the two women convicted in March live. “We try to use prosecutions as a last resort. But you run into situations where a woman has had five kids, and they’ve all tested positive for crack. Where do you draw the line?”

“Unless addicts are forced to stop, they won’t,” seconds Bobby Hood, the attorney representing the city of Charleston in the Supreme Court case. The threat of prison, he maintains, “has a very good deterrent effect.”

But in fact, according to a broad range of women’s rights and major health care organizations, the threat of prison is more likely to hurt, not help, the unborn babies of drug users, by frightening drug-using mothers-to-be away from seeking prenatal care. The American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and many other groups formally oppose criminal prosecutions of mothers of drug-exposed babies.

Even Daniel Kennedy , an Illinois lawyer who recently founded the incipient Fetal Rights Institute, doesn’t think criminal prosecutions are the way to go. “Fetuses are definitely children,” says Kennedy. “But jailing moms for hurting their kids prenatally doesn’t help. It will only encourage women to seek abortions, or avoid treatment.”

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Paterson man arrested for selling drugs at substance abuse treatment center
PATERSON — Police arrested a 55-year-old man outside a drug-treatment center and charged him with distributing prescription medication inside the facility, according to a report on NorthJersey.com. Luis Pou was busted at the Straight & Narrow complex, …
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Tampa Treatment Center Announces New Approach Toward Drug-Induced Deaths
A Tampa treatment center is starting an updated, new consultation program that is geared toward helping cut back on the number of drug-related deaths for people living in Tampa and surrounding cities through Drug Addiction Treatment Centers. According …
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