Needle exchanges help fight disease
We also know, as cited in the National HIV/AIDS Strategy, that providing sterilized equipment to injection-drug users substantially reduces the risk of HIV infection, increases the probability that they will initiate drug treatment and does not …
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When harm is imminent
Ohio lawmakers are considering an important question: Should state law make clear that probate courts can order mentally ill people into outpatient treatment against their will? The stark … House Bill 104 and Senate Bill 43 would require essentially …
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Governor's Start Talking campaign hits Mentor
Drugs, prescription opiates and heroin in particular are such a pervasive issue in Ohio that the state is launching a new youth drug abuse prevention initiative called Start Talking. Aimed at … The young man went through a rehab program and came to …
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Doesn't ADD Up: Doctors behind ADHD study question drug treatment
Behavioral therapy, meanwhile, focuses on developing a child's long-term academic and social skills. According to psychologist Ruth Hughes of the advocacy group Children and Adults With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, medication may make a …
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Treating ADHD only with drugs questioned
Twenty years ago, more than a dozen leaders in child psychiatry received $ 11 million to study an important question facing families with children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: Is the best long-term treatment medication, behavioral …
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Maryhaven treatment center evolves for changing addictions
The Columbus Dispatch Sunday December 29, 2013 8:01 AM. Comments: 0; Tweet. When she checked into Maryhaven 37 years ago, Mary Dohn and most of the other patients in the residential treatment program considered themselves alcoholics. “We were …
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Crouse Hospital expanding its methadone program as painkiller, heroin …
The program, the only one of its kind in the area, currently serves 500 people. It will grow to accommodate another 300. The program's capacity has more than doubled over the last 10 years. Demand is so great for treatment services addicts often must …
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Veterans' treatment addresses both mental illness, substance abuse
Eventually, he was placed in a program at the Chalmers P. Wylie VA Ambulatory Care Center in Columbus that was the first of its kind in the federal veterans system when it was launched in May 2012. Integrated dual disorder treatment recognizes that …
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Emergency Medicine: Patients show power of resiliency
It was a struggle to get him to slow down and agree to the inpatient treatment he needed. He didn't want his life to be interrupted by something as pesky as cancer. Again. The word I looked up after these encounters was resiliency, which Webster …
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No place to go: Seriously mentally ill often discharged from hospitals …
After living much of his adult life in treatment centers, prisons and on the streets, David Rosier puts groceries away in his Hanahan apartment, an arrangement that is the result of changing the course he was on and getting help through a program …
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Addiction Treatment Helpline – A New Resource for Those Seeking Help with …
Also addressed are issues revolving around prescription drug abuse. Finally, Addiction Treatment Helpline offers extensive details regarding the range of treatment options that are currently used and how or where to find rehabilitation centers. This …
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Private drug rehab clinic will expand local options
Just this week Ohio's ongoing problem with opiates was highlighted in a Columbus Dispatch report which showed admissions for opiate addiction to publicly funded treatment centers is on the rise all over the state. The report states many of the people …
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State: Drug treatment options exist despite local backlog
The state also has specialty opiate treatment centers that focus on coordinating care for individuals with complex addictions and offer methadone and buprenorphine treatment. “It is important for people to understand what their options are,” Cimaglio said.
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