Grant will Establish NYC Facility for Dually Diagnosed

Mental Health Weekly The New York State Office of Mental Health has awarded a $4.7 million grant to Odyssey House, a 33-year-old therapeutic community, to construct a new 46-bed supervised community residence in New York City for adults with co-occurring mental and...

Letter to the Editor: Going to Pot

Manhattan: Parents’ outrage over the treatment their marijuana-smoking teenagers received from the New York City Police Department following the kids’ arrests at a pro-legalization rally in lower Manhattan on May 6 is at once baffling and worrisome....

Drug Tests’ Easy Lure

To the Editor: Re “Family in Texas challenges Mandatory School Drug Test” (front page, April 17): Many of us who work in drug treatment are concerned the enactment of mandatory drug testing of high school students by the Lockney school board in Texas will...

Straw’s Drug Abuse Lessons

The Daily News By Peter Provet, Ph.D.   Major League Baseball has finally held Darryl Strawberry accountable for his cocaine abuse. While many applaud this decision, it is important to examine his drug abuse in the broader context of chronic addictions across all...