Officials: Time for a Bennington drug treatment center or methadone clinic
Kristyn Harrington, assistant principal and school-based clinician at Mount Anthony Union High School, speaks on the panel, during a discussion held on Friday at the Bennington Fire Facility to discuss the heroin problem in Bennington. (Holly …
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Scott Miller trains as a recruiter for controversial Scientology rehab centre
The Church of Scientology has hired Olympic swimmer Scott Miller as a recruiter for a drug rehabilitation centre where the methamphetamine user 'dried out' on a controversial intensive sauna and vitamin therapy. The gold medal winner, more recently …
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A. Richard Grossman dies at 81; surgeon founded burn-treatment center
Jonathan Simons, a psychologist who has counseled many of the center's patients, told the Daily News of Los Angeles in 2001 that Grossman "could write a book on bedside manner." "Grossman approaches his work as his destiny, and the feeling is …
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Los Angeles Addiction Treatment Center Welcomes Ken Paves Salon
Anna Manessiotis, celebrity stylist at Ken Paves Salon in West Hollywood, joins The Lakehouse Recovery Center this week, donating her services to the center's residents. The Lakehouse hopes to continue hosting stylists from the well-known salon …
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Cancer center joins trial network
By Beth Christian Broschart – Staff Writer , The Inter-Mountain … ELKINS – The Cancer Care Center of Davis Medical Center is joining a statewide cancer clinical trials network in order to keep cancer patients closer to home when receiving treatment.
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Saeed Abedini, US pastor held in Iran, denied treatment after prison beating
Abedini, who has served just one year of an eight-year sentence meted out to him for allegedly evangelizing in his homeland, was taken to the hospital a little over a week ago, according to the American Center for Law and Justice, the attorneys …
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Faith vs. civil rights? Sex, gender, and the familiar fight over religious …
So says Professor Katherine Franke, director of the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School and one of the driving forces behind the school's Public Rights/Private Conscience Project, a new initiative that seeks to shift the way …
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Mixed Signals on CMX001 Drug Creates Major Ethical Dilemma
The company knows that the drug has marginal, at best, effectiveness as anything besides a preventative measure. Both prior studies have narrowed the focus to the drug's ability to prevent the spread of the viral infection — not as a treatment for an …
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Treating Schizophrenia Successfully
Medication adherence is a big challenge. In the Clinical Antipsychotic Trials of Intervention Effectiveness (CATIE), 74 percent of patients stopped taking their medication within the first 18 months of treatment. Not taking medication increases the …
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Supplements Could Prevent Drug-Induced Hearing Loss
The drug gentamicin can provide effective treatment for people with bacterial infections that are resistant to other antibiotics, but this medication can cause a serious side effect, too: hearing loss. Now, University of Florida researchers have …
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Watch: In taking on its heroin crisis, Vermont shoots itself in the foot
The directors of two residential treatment centers told America Tonight that since then, the number of patients requiring readmission at their facilities has doubled. William Young, executive director of Maple Leaf Farm, said they looked at the number …
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Neuroscience Firm Partners with Los Angeles, CA Drug Rehab Center
Grey Matters International, a cutting-edge neuroscience recovery solutions firm specializing in a myriad of mental health advancement services, is announcing its Los Angeles, California presence through a new partnership with residential addiction …
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Council supports RGV youth drug rehabilitation center
Mission City Council joined a Valley-wide effort to bring a full-service residential drug rehabilitation treatment center for juveniles to South Texas by passing a resolution in support of the center in a Tuesday meeting. Eddie Olivarez, a member of …
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