The Betty Ford Center‘s recent newsletter, Findings (Winter 2008), included an article on a study about women-focused substance abuse treatment. The study found that women-focused and women-only treatment groups have long-term, positive outcomes. Researchers took patients with substance use disorders and randomly assigned them to either a women-focused treatment group, called the Women’s Recovery Group,…
A recent article in the New York Times brings attention to the actions of a local prosecutor in Andalusia, Alabama, with a rural jurisdiction of barely 37,000. District attorney, Greg L. Gambril, has overseen at least 8 prosecutions of women for using drugs while pregnant. According to the article, this tally has no recent parallel…
Hundreds of protesters packed the halls of the Maine State House yesterday, making their voices heard about the deep cuts Governor Baldacci is proposing in his change package plan to balance Maine’s budget. The protest came during the second and final day of legislative hearings on a new round of cuts that Baldacci proposed last…
Update: On March 5th, The House voted 268 to 148 in favor of H.R. 1424, the Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act. Read more Faces and Voices of Recovery is asking the public to join them in calling on their US Representative to help make history by voting “Yes” on The Paul Wellstone…
