Tag: substance abuse
Cannabis use is rising among R.I. middle schoolers; high school alcohol...
Yesterday’s vices have lost some favor among Rhode Island’s teens and preteens, a new survey suggests.
And yet cannabis seems to have found a bigger...
Pandemic raises workload for mental health agencies
During the first week of March at the BH Link call center in East Providence, about 3.5% of the roughly 40 calls that came...
Brown using $12.5M NIH grant to fund research on substance misuse,...
PROVIDENCE — Brown University has been awarded a $12.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to launch a new Center of Biomedical...
NIDA funds $1.8M Pro-Change substance abuse risk screening software study
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – The National Institute on Drug Abuse has just awarded Pro-Change Behavior Systems’ Chief Science Officer Dr. Deborah Levesque a $1.77 million grant...
New initiative to match Rhode Islanders in recovery with jobs
PROVIDENCE - In an effort to reach Rhode Islanders in recovery and match them with open jobs and skills training opportunities, on Wednesday, Gov....
CVS Health Foundation grants $56K for 211 call center substance use...
PROVIDENCE — The United Way’s 211 call center will soon be able to bring in Anchor Recovery peer counselors on opioid and other substance...
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