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Prevention Services, Student & Youth
Camp CARE empowers kids whose family members suffer from addiction
In its third decade, Camp CARE is a summer program dedicated to empowering kids who have loved ones that suffer from addiction.
Erika Bradbury, a Community Health Educator with Care of ...
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News, Student & Youth
CARE receives DADA grant of $50,000 to help with its programs for youth during COVID-19
CARE of Southeastern Michigan has $50,000 more to help with its mission to increase in-person and virtual counseling for Macomb County youth in response to COVID-19.
The funding is ...
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Substance Abuse, Substance Use Prevention
Stepfather’s unexpected words probably saved Michigan substance user’s life
They’d already stopped for breakfast and a couple of cigarettes and now Tommy Kraus was back in the passenger seat of his stepfather’s red Dodge Durango.
That he’d ...
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STERLING HEIGHTS — Anti-drug activist Mark Kilgore knows the statistics prove that opioid abuse and overdose deaths have skyrocketed over the past two decades in Michigan.
In 1999, the state had ...
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Alcohol, Tobacco, & Drugs, Substance Use Prevention
Detroit Free Press New Michigan law makes it easier for patients to refuse opioids
Michigan has enacted a new law that allows people to refuse opioid medications by placing a non-opioid advance directive in their medical file.
The goal of the new law — which ...
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Alcohol, Tobacco, & Drugs, Substance Use Prevention
Opioid-related overdose deaths hit new high in Michigan
Lansing — Michigan set a new record for overdose deaths last year, the state reported Thursday, but the rate of growth in the opioid-related death epidemic is slowing.