Finally, regional "Centers of Excellence" in substance abuse teaching should be established to provide long-term continuity in expanding substance abuse training.
Then, in 1971, an opening came up at Fort Sam Houston to help expand substance-abuse programs, and he took it.
In May, the House and Senate passed bills that would require the veterans agency to expand substance-abuse screening and treatment for all veterans.
Generally speaking, they call on FSIS, EPA and FDA to "1) expand the substances they test for, 2) improve their methodology for sampling hazardous residues, 3) determine more efficient ways of approving newer methods of testing for drug residues and 4) collaborate to set tolerances for additional residues".
Veterans Aid, whch last year assisted 458 veterans in crisis, will be able to expand their substance abuse and mental health treatment programmes for homeless and in-need veterans with an award of £160,000.
Contrary to popular perception, however, Gilliam's visions weren't fuelled by mind-expanding substances – a notion he would also have to dispel after his drug binge road movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas in 1998.
Among drug advocates, there are your average stoners and there are gurus who proselytize about consciousness-expanding substances — people like Timothy Leary, who was branded "the most dangerous man in America".
We are doing the equivalent of taking my dog Spike and your dog Mylo and her cat Brighty and his horse Cheyenne and killing them in the name of expanding the production of substances that are in the process of killing our world.
"Mind expanding" drugs (or psychoactive substances) aren't exactly the most reliable way to try to find enlightenment.
Zirconium tungstate is an unusual substance in that it shrinks in all directions when heated, whereas most other substances expand when heated.
