Vermont pushes for shorter drug treatment stays, relapse rate rises
Both men said the increases are the result of a rule put in place July 1 by the state Health Department that requires residential drug treatment centers, as a condition of payment, to get pre-approval for any patient stays that last longer that 15 days …
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Doctors have reached limit on prescribing medication for heroin withdrawals
So Beacon Center, a six-facility chain of alcoholism and substance abuse treatment centers, started a program using the opioid Suboxone at its Utica facility in January to address the shortage. It plans to start another program at its Herkimer facility …
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New magnetic treatment offers hope for depression
… a new but expensive treatment option may offer hope where everything else has failed. Transcranial magnetic stimulation, or TMS, is an outpatient procedure during which magnetic pulses are focused on a part of the brain that becomes sluggish during …
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Pain pill in pregnancy may raise child's ADHD risk, study finds
The “safest” drug for relieving aches and pains, lowering fever and treating headaches in pregnancy may not be so safe after all, according to a new report — it may raise the risk of ADHD and similar disorders in their children. Researchers found that …
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Philip Seymour Hoffman dies amid major comeback of heroin in the US
… a professor of neuropharmacology at Washington University in St. Louis, told the Los Angeles Times in a phone interview Monday. For seven years, Cicero has been monitoring trends for patients in 150 drug treatment centers across the country. In …
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Program's end reopens debate on clean needles for drug users
Each day, dozens of drug addicts file into New Leaf Treatment Center hoping for a respite from their cravings. Gantt Galloway hopes to buy time for their recovery. A pharmacist and noted researcher, Galloway founded a drug treatment center in Lafayette.
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Families struggle with crisis after crisis when a loved one is addicted
Their stories share more than a few common threads – a once-wholesome child stealing and manipulating to get money for drugs, repeat stints at short-term drug treatment centers followed by near-immediate relapse, overdoses, and, all-too-often, the …
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Drug recovery a 'sink or swim' struggle for South Jersey addicts, families …
In-patient rehabilitation centers are also hard to find, and Thompson finds himself regularly sending clients to North Jersey or out of state entirely for clinical services. Finding in-patient facilities for individuals without health insurance or …
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Three Willard parole officers charged with falsifying time sheets
Three state parole officers assigned to Seneca County's Willard Drug Treatment Center have been charged with felonies for allegedly filing false time sheets. Waterloo-based state police on Saturday said the arrests are the result of a joint …
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Family Advocate Highlights UMB's Black History Month Event
The keynote speaker was Joseph T. Jones Jr., president and founder of the Center for Urban Families (CFUF), a West Baltimore organization that seeks to halt family disintegration in part by offering a fresh start to absentee fathers. Jones admittedly …
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