West Brazos Alcoholism Treatment Helpline Assists Addicts in Finding Therapy
LIGHTNING RELEASES 04/21/14 –The innovative new West Brazos Alcoholism Treatment Helpline is a wonderful resource for adolescents who need assistance finding a reliable drug and alcohol rehabilitation center offering a variety of treatment methods.
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Waterford man accused of sexually assaulting girl to go to treatment center …
Defense attorney Patrick Cafferty said Stade will be transported to Manitoba House, a Milwaukee drug and alcohol treatment center, to be treated for alcoholism. Racine County Assistant District Attorney Robert Repischak told Circuit Judge Tim Boyle …
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Drug treatment programs would take hit if Illinois income tax increase expires
Recovery Resources Interim Executive Director Rick Goughnour says as the need for drug and alcohol treatment increases, the state money they receive is going down. "Our current budget we receive approximately 65 percent from state funding and we have …
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How to Fix Rehab: Expert Who Lost Son to Addiction Has a Plan
That's even worse than what another nonprofit found a decade ago, when it conducted a national study of 144 “highly regarded” teen treatment programs. Each program in that study—conducted by Mathea Falco's Drug Strategies, a DC-based nonprofit that …
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Bill to help improve drug and alcohol treatment for inmates signed into law
The new law (A-2295) would ensure that incarcerated individuals who participate in and complete drug treatment programs that meet or substantially meet requirements for licensure as residential programs are not denied eligibility for general public …
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Aid in Recovery Comments on Reported Discovery of Addictive Mechanism in …
Aid in Recovery, a full service drug and alcohol treatment center servicing south Florida, released a statement today commenting on a report that researchers have identified the mechanism that causes cocaine's addictive properties. According to a …
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23 Health Benefits Of Marijuana
… these seizures. As Gutpa notes, a Florida hospital that specialises in the disorder, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Drug Enforcement agency don't endorse marijuana as a treatment for Dravet or other seizure disorders. … CBD may help …
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Cook overcomes family struggles for NFL opportunity
It begins with a 28-year-old single mother named Michelle Cook, an only child who grew up in a two-parent home and went to a private high school, but who spent more than a decade battling drug and alcohol addiction. It begins with …. In seventh grade …
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Salina man who collected child porn placed on probation
Johnson ordered Beets to serve three years on Community Corrections-supervised probation, with the requirements that he obtain sex offender treatment and an alcohol and drug evaluation. He must register as a sexual offender for 25 years and will be …
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Harm-Reduction Program Optimizes HIV/AIDS Prevention, UCSF Study Shows
New research from UC San Francisco and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation has found that clients participating in a harm-reduction substance use treatment program, the Stonewall Project, decrease their use of stimulants, such as methamphetamine, and …
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Risk Score Predicts Arthritis Progression
In contrast, among those with scores of zero, none progressed, and among those with scores of one or two — reflecting moderate baseline risk — 31% progressed, the researchers reported online in Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. … "Identifying …
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Counties tell Brown they need money for his law
Stanislaus County Sheriff Adam Christianson and county Supervisor Vito Chiesa said one key to making Brown's realignment law work is having enough classroom space and money to provide drug and alcohol treatment and other programs that can keep …
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Question by Breezy: Do you know of any free ebooks about drugs, drug and alcohol treatment, alcoholism,?
I need read a book and do a review for a class about life, society and drugs. I would like an e-book so I can read it anywhere. I could also read one that costs no more than $ 10.
Have you read any good books that talk about drugs, or drug use or abuse?

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Answer by WV_Nomad
I use to work at a treatment facility. There is a wide range of infomation on that topic and what is the best treatment. You could always a and AA/NA book to understand the addiction or go to an open meeting. There are many programs that doesn’t agree with AA/NA, due to reasons, and a major one would be that AA/NA views the addiction as a disease, and the religious views addiction as a behavior. A lot of college book stores has books on that topic and if their used it would be cheaper to buy. A good book, but hard to understand because it’s a Masters degree level, but it does give different views about alcoholism “Alcoholism and the Family….A Guide to Treatment and Prevention”…by Ann Lawson and Gary Lawson. If you decide to get it, try reading through it a little, cause there are big words in it that could make the book boring.

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FOUNDATION SPOTLIGHT: Whiteside Manor in Riverside
Whiteside Manor offers affordable drug and alcohol treatment programs for men and women, including supportive services to dually diagnosed persons, a particularly vulnerable subgroup of the homeless population. Established in 1971, Whiteside Manor is a …
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Tiny house part of recovering addict's healing journey
He went to rehab in Barrie, Ontario and afterwards, spent nine-and-a-half years working as a counsellor with other addicts, including at the Tree of Peace in Yellowknife where he's under contract. Merklinger built his first tiny house with the help of …
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Menu Courey's family 'pleased' with independent counsel findings
The foundation's goal is to lead a mental health reform by promoting awareness for the need of early prevention, recognition, timely intervention and access to affordable treatment of individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder. We are holding our …
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