Rural Ohio ravaged by drug deaths
Experts say treatment and rehabilitation is the key to fighting the drug problem, but only about a half-dozen treatment centers in southwest Ohio offer opiate addiction services, according to the Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services.
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Synanon's Sober Utopia: How a Drug Rehab Program Became a Violent Cult
Dederich is credited with a lot of positive innovations early on in his career as a drug rehab guru. He focused on a marginalized group that most institutions wanted nothing to do with. He was said to have coined the phrase "Today is the first day of …
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Heroin addicts face barriers to treatment
Of the 23.1 million Americans who needed treatment for drugs or alcohol in 2012, only 2.5 million people received aid at a specialty facility, according to the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Heroin addicts are a …
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Following veteran's overdose death, report finds problems at Miami VA drug …
A drug abuse rehabilitation program at Miami's Veterans Affairs hospital failed to monitor patients, provide sufficient staff, control access to the facility or even curb illicit drug use among patients — culminating with the death of a combat veteran …
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Long wait for drug rehab program
THE waiting list for an offender drug rehab program has blown out to more than 12 months in the North. The court-mandated drug diversion program is available to offenders who break the law primarily because of a drug addiction.
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Man sentenced for dealing heroin
But Falstad's sentence also will allow Kennedy to enter a drug-addiction program after four years that could lead to his early release from prison. If Kennedy is released early from prison after successful completion of the drug rehab program, he would …
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Cleveland drug court graduates avoided jail by getting treatment (photo gallery)
Completing the roughly yearlong program results in graduates' felony drug charges being reduced to misdemeanors, their guilty pleas being vacated and the cases being sealed or expunged, Mays said. Graduates said during the graduation that they were …
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Ashtabula County gets funding for residential drug treatment program
Ultimately the offenders will have to enter into the residential treatment program rather than go to prison, Kaiser said. “These funds are for treatment for these offenders to reduce our prison population,” he said. Text Only. Copyright 2014 The Star …
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For vets, rehab rather than prison
Taucher completed a new program that offers veterans struggling with substance abuse a chance at rehabilitation rather than prison. Along with four other veterans, Taucher stood before magistrate Judge Michael Urbanksi in a Veterans Court in Roanoke, …
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Pike County expanding jail's drug rehab program
Officials in eastern Kentucky are moving forward with a project to expand drug rehabilitation at the Pike County jail. Officials told the Appalachian News-Express (http://bit.ly/McThAe) that the initiative to turn part of the former Pike County Hall of …
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Amendment dilutes terms for drug tests
Fiscal analysis showed that it could cost the state millions to implement such a drug testing program, with limited savings. It's unclear … And he said repeatedly that if the person is in a drug rehab program, he or she can continue to receive the …
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Doctors have reached limit on prescribing medication for heroin withdrawals
So many heroin and prescription painkiller addicts have entered rehab locally over the last several months that providers no longer can offer one popular kind of medication-assisted rehab. So Beacon … But cost isn't the only force behind the switch …
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States use Good Samaritan laws, Narcan, to fight drug overdoses
Chris Christie, left, and singer Jon Bon Jovi at a drug rehab program in Paterson, N.J. Bon Jovi, whose daughter survived an apparent heroin overdose in 2012, helped convince Christie to sign a â œGood Samaritanâ law shielding overdose victims and …
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