Rehab centers struggle to keep drugs out
Falkowski, now president of Drug Abuse Dialogues, an educational organization on drug and alcohol abuse in Minnesota, has heard stories of desperate addicts trying to distill fruit pilfered from the cafeteria into alcohol. At a treatment center where …
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Passages Malibu Marks National Drug and Alcohol Addiction Recovery Month
National Recovery Month means business as usual at Passages Addiction Treatment Centers in Malibu and Ventura. The two addiction treatment facilities provide the latest and most progressive treatment options available in the industry. Clients from …
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Zac Efron and 4 Other Celebrities That Went To Rehab For Secret Drug …
Despite Odom's claim that he is not a drug addict, the 33-year-old athlete entered a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in September, only to leave one day later, according to a report from TMZ. PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN. Philip Seymour Hoffman …
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Four beds ready to treat Internet addicts
That sentiment could change on Monday, when the country's first inpatient treatment program for Internet addiction opens at Bradford Regional Medical Center in Pennsylvania. "I've been studying Internet addiction since 1994," says Dr. Kimberly Young, …
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Rehab centers struggle to keep drugs out
When Bethany Ehrhart, 23, wanted to kick her addiction to painkillers, her mother, Darlene, found the money for top-of-the-line treatment at the world-renowned Betty Ford Center. A week after her arrival at the celebrity rehab in Rancho Mirage, Calif …
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Allentown zoners reject Abraham Atiyeh's proposed drug, alcohol rehab center
A proposal to establish a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in a residential Allentown neighborhood was unanimously rejected by city zoners tonight. But the matter appears far from resolved. Immediately after the decision was rendered, developer …
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Proposal would turn former Catholic girls school into drug rehab facility
The proposal says the Louisville Center for Rehabilitative Medicine would be a state-licensed facility specializing in substance abuse treatment. Its clients would be people with drug and alcohol addictions receiving in-patient treatment. According to …
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Rehab centers struggle to keep drugs out
When Bethany Ehrhart, 23, wanted to kick her addiction to painkillers, her mother, Darlene, found the money for top-of-the-line treatment at the world-renowned Betty Ford Center. A week after her arrival at the celebrity rehab in Rancho Mirage, Calif …
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New treatment center helps shed misconceptions about Internet addiction
The nation's first inpatient treatment program for Internet addiction opened this month in Bradford, Pennsylvania. It's a ten-day program that involves a thorough search for internet connected devices, a three-day quarantine, and hopefully a cure …
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17 (HealthDay News) — Treating drug and alcohol addiction with a concentrated approach called chronic care management may be no more effective than a single medical appointment and addiction referral, according to a new study. Results of the year-long …
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Zac Efron and 4 Other Celebrities That Went To Rehab For Secret Drug …
Despite Odom's claim that he is not a drug addict, the 33-year-old athlete entered a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in September, only to leave one day later, according to a report from TMZ. PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN. Philip Seymour Hoffman …
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Intensive Substance–Abuse Treatment Fails to Deliver Better Results: Study
TUESDAY, Sept. 17 (HealthDay News) — Treating drug and alcohol addiction with a concentrated approach called chronic care management may be no more effective than a single medical appointment and addiction referral, according to a new study.
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Suboxone, an addiction treatment drug, seeps into Ohio prisons as contraband
suboxone.JPG Suboxone is an addiction treatment medication that satisfies the brain's hunger for opiates and limits the harsh withdrawal crash that addicts suffer. The drug, in the form of strips, has been smuggled into Ohio prisons, authorities say.
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Expanded Medicaid Will Cover Mental Health, Substance–Abuse Treatment
Some low-income New Jersey residents will be eligible for treatment for drug and alcohol addictions, as well as some mental health services, under the upcoming Medicaid expansion. But most Medicaid recipients won't be eligible for the new benefits.
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PPACA may steer 40 million to drug, alcohol programs
The other day it was 37 million — the number of people a Stanford Medical School study suggested might bolt their employer health plan for exchange coverage. Now, we hearing that 40 million folks may enter drug and/or alcohol rehab programs once the …
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Bangor conference sheds light on drug, alcohol addiction treatment differences …
BANGOR, Maine — When it comes to drug and alcohol addiction, there are differences between men and women, and that means treatment programs need to be different, local substance abuse providers learned Friday at a conference about addiction and …
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Intensive Substance-Abuse Treatment Fails to Deliver Better Results: Study
17 (HealthDay News) — Treating drug and alcohol addiction with a concentrated approach called chronic care management may be no more effective than a single medical appointment and addiction referral, according to a new study. Results of the year-long …
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Millions more to get coverage for addiction, alcoholism treatment, but can the …
In the coming years, treatment programs and medical colleges will face pressure to ramp up to create a larger system. But until then, addiction treatment may represent an extreme example of one of the Affordable Care Act's challenges: actually …
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Funding cuts to drug treatment centers mean addicts get turned away
The new state budget sliced funding to three state-run alcohol and drug abuse treatment centers by about $ 4.9 million each year for the next two years – a 12 percent reduction per year to each facility's budget. The three – Walter B. Jones Alcohol and …
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Bangor conference sheds light on drug, alcohol addiction treatment differences …
BANGOR, Maine — When it comes to drug and alcohol addiction, there are differences between men and women, and that means treatment programs need to be different, local substance abuse providers learned Friday at a conference about addiction and …
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