Drug Rehab For Women Highlights the Importance of Gender-Specific Treatment …
“We have seen evidence that gender-specific treatment, such as specific alcohol or drug rehab for women programs, allows us to offer several pathways to recovery or wellness. By treating a woman's overall health during treatment we're able to offer her …
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New Alcohol Treatment Programs Now Available at Drug Rehab Center Allentown
Drug Rehab Center Allentown has restructured their treatment programs to help people struggling with alcohol abuse to focus on living in a world where they will come face to face with their addiction on a regular basis. The legality and availability of …
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Drug Rehab For Women Destination Hope Expands Eating Disorders Program
In light of new information, Destination Hope: The Women's Program, a nationally recognized gender specific mental health treatment and drug rehab for women facility in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, is expanding their eating disorders program to …
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WV Drug Court graduation in Kanawha County
The graduates passed the intense drug rehab program that is an alternative to a revolving system of drug addiction and incarceration. Some of … Continuing interdisciplinary education promotes effective drug court planning, implementation, and operations.
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Save America's Most Dangerous City: Decriminalize Drugs and Provide …
… July 15 at Park West Apartments. A troubled 18-year-old with a history of home robberies is charged with their shootings, plus one more. There was a warrant out for his arrest because he had left the drug treatment program he had been sentenced to …
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PPACA may steer 40 million to drug, alcohol programs
The other day it was 37 million — the number of people a Stanford Medical School study suggested might bolt their employer health plan for exchange coverage. Now, we hearing that 40 million folks may enter drug and/or alcohol rehab programs once the …
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Bangor conference sheds light on drug, alcohol addiction treatment differences …
BANGOR, Maine — When it comes to drug and alcohol addiction, there are differences between men and women, and that means treatment programs need to be different, local substance abuse providers learned Friday at a conference about addiction and …
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Intensive Substance-Abuse Treatment Fails to Deliver Better Results: Study
17 (HealthDay News) — Treating drug and alcohol addiction with a concentrated approach called chronic care management may be no more effective than a single medical appointment and addiction referral, according to a new study. Results of the year-long …
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Millions more to get coverage for addiction, alcoholism treatment, but can the …
In the coming years, treatment programs and medical colleges will face pressure to ramp up to create a larger system. But until then, addiction treatment may represent an extreme example of one of the Affordable Care Act's challenges: actually …
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VMA Gift Bags Include Addiction Recovery Book From Lindsay Lohan's Last …
In this year's gift bag, guests will receive a copy of "Ending Addiction for Good: The Ground-Breaking, Holistic, Evidence-Based Way to Transform Your Life," from the people at Cliffside Malibu, which happens to be the last rehab center Lindsay Lohan …
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Addiction centre boss calls for abstinence approach to drug treatment programmes
THE boss of a Burton rehabilitation centre has called on government ministers to honour commitments to move heroin addicts away from methadone treatment programmes. Noreen Oliver, chief executive of Burton Addiction Centre, made the comments after …
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Malibu Beach is fed up with rehab clinics, burned out celebs and the paparazzi …
“It was kind of startling to see.” Bereft of his clothes – and his senses, the visitor could not explain why he was covered in mud, nor where he had been. But when he asked Mr. Cano to help him get to a drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre down the …
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Tehran Allows Test Run Of Alcohol Addiction Treatment Center
Tehran has issued a licence for the establishment of the city's first alcohol rehabilitation centre. ISNA reports that the head of the Public Health Department's Addiction Prevention Centre announced that the licence is for a pilot project for the …
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Crowd Packs Camden Meeting Over Zone Change for Alcohol Rehab Center
Camden – A proposal to put an alcohol rehab center in Camden drew an overflow crowd last night to a town planning board meeting. A majority of the people opposed the project. Fox Hill Real Estate is asking for a zoning change to allow a residential …
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Addiction centre boss calls for abstinence approach to drug treatment programmes
THE boss of a Burton rehabilitation centre has called on government ministers to honour commitments to move heroin addicts away from methadone treatment programmes. Noreen Oliver, chief executive of Burton Addiction Centre, made the comments after …
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California lawmakers order audit of taxpayer-funded drug rehab program
California lawmakers ordered an audit today to examine the extent of fraud in the state's taxpayer-funded drug rehabilitation program and to assess why measures weren't taken to stop it sooner. The review was spurred by Rehab Racket, a yearlong …
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Rehab racket: Frauds, felons and fakes
"Everyone talked the talk, everyone was zero tolerance for fraud and abuse, but no one would do anything about it," said Joy Jarfors, who retired in 2010 from a manager position at the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs, which shared the job of …
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Alcohol Crisis Center to open Oct. 1 on Staten Island
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – Project Hospitality, the organization for the homeless and hungry that has turned much of its attention to Hurricane Sandy recovery since the storm, will reopen an alcohol and drug treatment program at Bayley Seton Hospital, the …
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