Put Your Medicines Up and Away and Out of Sight About 60,000 young children end up in emergency rooms each year because they got into medicines while an adult wasn’t …
NATURAL ALTERNATIVES FOR COLD AND FLU RELIEF
By Laura Roets, EdD, PhD, CTRS/L, LADC, CRAADC/Supv., AADC, CM III NAP Project Coordinator, Cox Health One of the issues faced in our current culture is the availability of quick-fixes, …
Local coalition members, Branson youth to attend substance use prevention training
Representatives from the Stone & Taney Counties Substance Abuse Initiative (SAI) and the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention Team (ADAPT), are headed to Orlando, Fla., to join nearly 2,000 substance …
Here’s One Simple Way We Can Change The Conversation About Drug Abuse
The negative words we use to describe drug addiction — “clean” vs. “dirty,” “patient” vs. “addict” — can drive some individuals away from the very help they so desperately need. …
Community Comes Together To Combat Substance Abuse
BRANSON, Mo. – Leaders from Stone and Taney Counties came together Thursday to help combat substance abuse in their respective communities. A drug summit was held in Branson to update …
Preventing a community crisis: The Substance Abuse Initiative
In 2015, 27 million individuals 12 and older used illicit drugs, according to the Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality — that is 10.2 percent of the U.S. population. …
Substance abuse initiative identifies main concerns; Alcohol, prescription drugs identified as top items of focus
Alcohol and prescription drugs are the top two recommended areas of focus for an initiative looking to combat substance abuse in Taney and Stone counties. For a period of six …
Branson Area Eyeing Substance Abuse Solutions
BRANSON, Mo. – The Branson area continues its initiative to prevent substance abuse in the community. After months of research and assessment, the Skaggs Foundation and Cox Medical Center Branson …
School hosts substance abuse workshop
When Al Vineyard visited her doctor for an injury on the job, she didn’t know her pain medication would lead to her nearly losing everything. “My doctor put me on …