The Holistic Sanctuary Conducts Emergency Poll in the Aftermath of the Death …
With the death of Cory Monteith*, who played the role of Finn Hudson on the Fox television series Glee, The Holistic Sanctuary has conducted an emergency poll of 1,000 past and current patients who have sought treatment from a conventional drug rehab …
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Best Drug Rehabilitation Launches Video Highlighting Importance of Free Time …
Best Drug Rehabilitation offers recovery geared to the personalized needs of each of each client, which is an option that makes the chance for long-term success much more likely. Our approach to recovery is holistic and multi-layered, because addiction …
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Florida Drug Rehab Program Combats New Trends in Alcohol Abuse
"The quick hit of inhaling vapors means that a person feels an immediate high," explained Brafman, CEO of Florida drug rehab programs Destination Hope and Destination Hope: The Women's Program. "This increases the possibility of addiction and alcohol …
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Viewpoint: How the Drug Treatment System Failed Cory Monteith
And that's where the “system” —the programs and facilities and treatment strategies most commonly called into action to help addicts — started to fail Monteith. The evidence suggests that many of these institutions are ineffective or even potentially …
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Recovery Associates Announces That Its Drug and Alcohol Addiction Treatment …
Recovery Associates announces its drug and alcohol treatment programs are now in Kendale Lakes, Florida. Drugs like cocaine, ecstasy, marijuana and alcohol could be a problem for men, women and adolescents. Whatever the case might be, the problem …
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Gateway's retiring CEO built a network of treatment facilities
After some time with the VA Center, Ramsey left to start a drug and alcohol treatment program at the former St. Joseph's Hospital on Pittsburgh's south side. During his nine-year tenure there as the program's executive director, he built the drug and …
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Recovery Associates Brings Its Leading-Edge Drug and Alcohol Treatment …
Recovery Associates is a drug and alcohol treatment center that provides a variety of programs and services for men, women and teens struggling with chemical dependency issues. At the core of their philosophy is the belief that addiction is a treatable …
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Viewpoint: How the Drug Treatment System Failed Cory Monteith
The evidence suggests that many of these institutions are ineffective or even potentially harmful— “troubled teen” is not a standardized diagnosis and most of these largely unregulated residential centers do not effectively identify or treat the most …
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Shelby County addiction professional: Teens are not afraid to use needles
ALABASTER, Ala. (WIAT) — Susan Staats-Sidwell has a front row seat to the shocking display of drug abuse in Shelby County. She operates the Shelby County Treatment Center, a methadone clinic in Alabaster where people addicted to opiates like heroin …
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Will the Great US Penal Reform Tip the Balance for Addicts?
Such alternative programs would ideally feature addiction treatment, as 60 percent of the nation's inmate population has substance abuse problems, according to a California Mental Health Planning Council study of re-alignment. Those numbers likely …
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Cory Monteith: Why Didn't Rehab Work?
… that the immediate period after rehab is one of tremendous vulnerability. "Newly sober people are more fragile than before they became addicts," says Bob Forrest, a California-based certified drug and alcohol counselor. … "Most people have a …
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Marijuana in Maine: The patients, the politics, the future
Last year, 17 percent of all drug arrests in Maine were for marijuana and 4,279 people seeking treatment for drug addiction named marijuana as one of their problem drugs. Its negative effects on a person are influenced by the quantity and frequency of …
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Viewpoint: How the Drug Treatment System Failed Cory Monteith
Part of the problem may have been with the rehab program itself; research suggests that many programs don't take advantage of available medications approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), don't provide talk therapy program that have been …
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Cory Monteith: Why Didn't Rehab Work?
For those just beginning a new life, addiction counselors say ongoing support groups and sober living facilities – in which recovering addicts live together in a drug-and-alcohol-free environment – are both key. "Most people have a problem and they go …
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Evidence of Heroin Addiction on the Rise
New Jersey's system of drug and alcohol prevention and treatment will understand that there often must be an element of coercion in order to see that addicts who are in and out of hospitals and jails at great cost to society, are instead ushered into …
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Did Cory Monteith Need More Care After Rehab?
Following “Glee” star Cory Monteith's death from a mixture of heroin and alcohol, there's renewed interest in how drug dependent individuals should re-enter society after completing treatment programs. Monteith, who is from Canada, had struggled with …
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When Rehab Doesn't Work
In fact, the stagnation seen at rehab centers today, both inpatient and outpatient, can be traced back decades, Fletcher says, to when the medical community would actually refuse to treat alcoholics and drug addicts. Addiction programs thus adopted …
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Cory Monteith: Experts not surprised by post-rehab death
Another Hollywood insider who has worked with many recovering drug addicts concurred that rehab can sometimes provide a “false sense of security” in believing that everything is okay and they're recovered. Many also pointed out that a 30-day program …
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One Rehab Center Approved, Another Denied: CB Says It's About Style
At the November 27 meeting, the Board gave the nod to One World Counseling, a newly-formed entity proposing to develop a drug and alcohol abuse treatment center at 1670 East 17th Street, just off Kings Highway. The Board's 31-4 vote came just minutes …
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