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Audit Finds State Provider Received Nearly $1 Million in Questionable … – the Journal News | LoHud.com

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Audit finds state provider received nearly $ 1 million in questionable
The Journal News | LoHud.com
A state audit released today found that the state Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services paid contractor Samaritan Village Inc. nearly $ 1 million in inappropriate and questionable expenses in a one-year period, including more than $ 400,000
Drug clinic offers employees high life with $ 1 million in shady spendingNew York Daily News
OASAS Made $ 1M in Questionable Payments To ContractorNorth Country Gazette

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Lawmaker seeks reversal of FDA approval of potent painkiller – Newsday

Lawmaker seeks reversal of FDA approval of potent painkiller
Newsday
Hydrocodone belongs to the highly addictive opioid family that includes morphine, codeine, methadone and oxycodone, which officials say is the region's most abused drug. Unlike Zohydro, oxycodone, the drug in the painkiller Jeffrey Reynolds

Audit by NYS Controller Thomas DiNapoli Knocks State Oversight of NYC Drug … – New York Daily News (Blog)

Audit By NYS Controller Thomas DiNapoli Knocks State Oversight Of NYC Drug … – New York Daily News (blog)

Audit By NYS Controller Thomas DiNapoli Knocks State Oversight Of NYC Drug
New York Daily News (blog)
The audit knocked the state Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS) for ineffective monitoring of how the treatment center—Samaritan Village Inc.—spends its money. The agency “needs to According to the audit, Samaritan Village

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Drug Clinic Offers Employees High Life With $1 Million in Shady Spending – New York Daily News

Drug clinic offers employees high life with million in shady spending – New York Daily News


New York Daily News

Drug clinic offers employees high life with $ 1 million in shady spending
New York Daily News
the audit, Samaritan Village, which provides residential, outpatient and methadone treatment services in the ciity, billed the state for $ 973,881 between July 1, 2009, and June 30, 2010, for unallowable, inappropriate, questionable or undocumented

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Top Federal Drug Policy Official to Visit Vt. – Danbury News Times

Top federal drug policy official to visit Vt. – Danbury News Times


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Top federal drug policy official to visit Vt.
Danbury News Times
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A top White House drug policy official will visit Vermont next week to talk about innovative ways to beat opiate addiction as the state's fight against heroin continues to draw national attention. The director of the Office of
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Pregnant and Addicted Pt. 2: Inside the LES Center Giving Struggling Moms New … – New York’s PIX11 / WPIX-TV

Pregnant and addicted Pt. 2: Inside the LES center giving struggling moms new … – New York’s PIX11 / WPIX-TV

Pregnant and addicted Pt. 2: Inside the LES center giving struggling moms new
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NEW YORK (PIX11) – Su Casa, part of the Lower Eastside Service Center, is a private, not for profit operating, in part, through a contract with the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services. In recent years, the center even began

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Counterpoint: Addiction Is Complex, and So Is Treatment – Minneapolis Star Tribune

Counterpoint: Addiction is complex, and so is treatment – Minneapolis Star Tribune


Minneapolis Star Tribune

Counterpoint: Addiction is complex, and so is treatment
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Mark Willenbring's commentary on the use of methadone to treat opiate addiction (“Filling an addiction treatment gap,” Feb. 24) raises a number of points I'd like to address as a heroin addict in long-term abstinence-based recovery (42 years) and as

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Sen. Bob Casey supports bill to combat prescription drug abuse in Pennsylvania – York Dispatch


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Sen. Bob Casey supports bill to combat prescription drug abuse in Pennsylvania
York Dispatch
The Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act would require better training for practitioners who prescribe opiod drugs, as well as establish a National Opiod Death Registry. The registry would supply data in Bill support: The bill would
Senator Casey Pushes for Legislation that Puts in Place Robust Plan to Address YourErie
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