Hazelden CEO looks to navigate a merger and a changing market
If you haven't lived in an alcoholic family, you don't know what it's like — it's really bad; it's awful." He's giving back by trying to help Hazelden transition to a changing market where more patients are treated at outpatient centers close to home …
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Gallo Research Center issues grant to discover new medication to treat alcohol …
The UCSF-affiliated Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center has issued a second round of grants under its U.S. Army-funded research program intended to accelerate the discovery and development of new medications to treat alcohol and substance abuse …
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Rallying for changes in Hanover
A heroin addiction can't be treated in the same way a marijuana or alcohol addiction can. "Heroin is just a whole different animal. The first time you use, you're addicted," said Southwestern Regional Police Chief Gregory Bean in an interview this summer.
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Well of support for Martin Walsh among those in recovery
Walsh was by then a state legislator, a recovering alcoholic who knew a thing or two about addiction. Barbuto thought of him only as a friend. “The guy, he's gold,” said Barbuto. “Marty was my friend when nobody else wanted to be.” Continue reading …
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5 Tips for Managing Triggers during Addiction Recovery
5 Tips for Managing Triggers during Addiction Recovery Completing treatment for substance abuse or alcohol addiction is a major accomplishment. But the real work starts when you walk out the door. You are now making a commitment to abstinence from …
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Addiction Recovery and the Power of Service
As the seasons change, you may clean out your closet, a good way to assist is to donate those old clothes to a drug and alcohol treatment center. Many recovering addicts show up only with the clothes on their backs or a garbage bag half full. And …
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Pax House Offers the Best 12-Step Program for Detox and Drug Treatment
Altadena, CA — (SBWIRE) — 10/14/2013 — Pax House, a residential chemical dependency treatment center, now offers the best daily 12-Step Meeting Program to it residence for an effective treatment for drug treatment in California. One of the …
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Amid fraud allegations, rehab doctor OKs treatment without seeing patients
The Medical Board of California accused one rehab clinic doctor in Burbank of overprescribing drugs at his private practice, giving large amounts of Vicodin to a woman addicted to the popular painkiller. A South Los Angeles doctor, now in prison …
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Twin Town Treatment Centers of Southern California to Be Honored During …
LOS ALAMITOS, CA–(Marketwired – Oct 8, 2013) – Key representatives from Twin Town Treatment Centers, Inc., a successful six-location outpatient drug and alcohol treatment facility based in Los Alamitos, Calif., are being recognized with two special …
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Prescription drug use at root of many Utah addictions and deaths
"Increases in substance abuse treatment admissions, emergency department visits and most disturbingly, overdose deaths attributable to prescription drug abuse place enormous burdens upon communities across the country." The report finds few states are …
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Bloomington recovery center goes forward despite opposition
GEORGE – Plans to open a residential drug and alcohol treatment center in the Bloomington Ranches neighborhood of St. George will apparently go ahead without any opposition from the city, according to statements from both city officials as well as the …
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SHUTDOWN IMPACT: 13 Days after the federal government closed, affects are …
The government shutdown continues with some hope for those who would like to visit the nation's national parks: The Obama administration said it would allow the states to use their own money to pay for park operations and Utah jumped at the chance …
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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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Health law could overwhelm addiction services
“There is no illness currently being treated that will be more affected by the Affordable Care Act than addiction,” said Tom McLellan, CEO of the nonprofit Treatment Research Institute and President Barack Obama's former deputy drug czar. “That's …
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New Alcohol Treatment Programs Now Available at Drug Rehab Center Allentown
But the truth is, if you consume alcohol regularly, or if you use it to regulate your physical or psychological feelings, you are abusing alcohol.” Drug Rehab Center Allentown has restructured their treatment programs to help people struggling with …
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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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Salvation Army pulls plan to move residential drug and alcohol treatment …
The Salvation Army has withdrawn its offer to purchase Kenowa Hills' Fairview Elementary School and end its plans to move the Salvation Army's "Turning Point Program" residential drug and alcohol treatment center there. The move comes after a two-hour …
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