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SUPRs — Illinois’s State-Funded Program for First-Time Rehab Clients

Gateway Foundation

Thanks to SUPR grants, Illinois can expand and improve its substance use disorder treatment efforts. The SUPR division and its grants aim to help address the state’s opioid crisis and help citizens experiencing addiction. With SUPR, Illinois hopes to reduce substance use and overdoses.

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How to Get an Illinois DUI Evaluation

Gateway Foundation

Often, it consists of a substance use disorder screening to determine the extent of your involvement with drugs or alcohol. An alcohol and drug evaluation identifies the presence of substances and the extent of an offender’s relation with substances. Evaluators might also use specific screening tools like these.

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How you can save babies whose mothers have substance use disorders

Stop Abuse Campaign

The statistics are shocking: ten percent or more of babies born in the United States test positive for alcohol or another mind-altering substance used by the mother struggling with substance use disorder. Babies born addicted to opiates have to start life going through the same agonizing withdrawal process as adults.

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The Truth About Why Your Brain Drives Your Behavior and Addiction

Pure Recovery California

Richard 38, had gone to twelve addiction treatment programs and failed every one of them. Addiction is a chronic brain disorder and not simply a behavior problem involving alcohol, drugs, gambling or sex, experts contend in a new definition of addiction. “Many behaviors driven by addiction are real problems.