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		<title>Cecil County Drug Deaths Rise Again, New Stats Show; County Advances Private Rehab Hospital Aimed at Non-Local Patients</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2014 19:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A CECIL TIMES SPECIAL REPORT Drug overdose deaths in Cecil County continue to rise to record levels, according to newly released state data, but members of the county’s drug abuse council were not informed of the statistics at a Thursday meeting. At the same time, county agencies and officials have rapidly advanced a proposed private drug rehab hospital catering to non-local patients while similar proposals elsewhere have faced months of questions and local reviews. Cecil Times reviewed newly-released data from the state Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, buried in spreadsheets on the agency’s website, showing that in the second quarter of this year, drug overdose deaths in Cecil County continued to rise, with another 10 drug deaths reported. During the first quarter of the year, there were also 10 fatal drug overdoses, bringing the total for the first six months of the year to 20. (In contrast, drug deaths in the county for the first six months of 2013 were 13.) At this pace, the county is on track for a record number of drug-related fatalities this year. The worst previous full-year tally was 28 in 2011—which on a population-adjusted basis gave Cecil County a death rate higher than [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>White House Gives Cecil County $125K Drug Prevention Grant; Over Half of $ Goes to Pay, Benefits for Program &#8216;Coordinator&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2014 20:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The White House has awarded $125,000 to Cecil County for programs aimed at preventing drug abuse, especially among youths. But more than half of the annual grant will go to pay salary and benefits for a co-coordinator of a newly-created “Cecil County Drug-Free Communities Coalition.” The grant comes from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and is designed to promote community-based projects to prevent drug abuse. The initial one-year grant is expected to be renewed annually for five years, for a total of $625,000, according to Ken Collins, a local health department official and the special advisor on drug policy to County Executive Tari Moore. While the grant proposal outlined seven broad areas for which the funds would be spent—including drug prevention and awareness training for parents and educators, “engaging new community members” and “developing and implementing a social norms campaign”—over half of the money will go to pay the salary and benefits of a co-coordinator who will be hired to administer the grant. Collins said the grant proposal provided a $50,000 annual salary plus $14,000 for the new program coordinator’s benefits. While the federal grant money goes directly to the Cecil County government, the funds are [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Drug Rehab Centers Proposed for Same Earleville Road; Cecil County Backs Treatment Options</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2014 16:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cecil County government has been quietly working with sponsors of two separate drug rehabilitation centers to bring live-in treatment facilities to Grove Neck road in rural Earleville, including a 50-bed medical facility on the site of the Bracebridge Hall mansion and farmland. The first public disclosure of the projects came Thursday 9/26/14 at a meeting of the county’s Drug and Alcohol Abuse Council. The second project is seeking to take over an old house on Grove Farm that is now owned by the State of Maryland as part of a sprawling 750-acre wildlife conservation area. Local minister Phil Meekins—who recently established Monarch House, a “recovery” house accommodating two former addicts in North East—said he is partnering with a Richmond, VA group to seek a free lease on the house under a state “curatorship” for historic properties in need of extensive renovations. The state program requires a minimum of $175,000 in repair expenditures by the curator. While neither project has yet to actually acquire the properties or receive necessary approvals from state agencies for operating a drug rehab facility, the county government has been working with the participants behind the scenes. This summer, her administration sent a letter to the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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