Center for Alcohol and Drug Treatment to expand in Two Harbors
The Center for Alcohol and Drug Treatment will triple its efforts in Two Harbors next year, offering an intensive outpatient substance abuse treatment program for 12 hours a week along with the current six hours of outpatient treatment at Lake View …
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Mandatory drug tests start for felons on Minnesota welfare
St. Louis County social service officials have started enforcing Minnesota's new drug-testing program for residents receiving state “welfare” benefits who previously have been convicted of a felony drug crime. The county is following a little-known law …
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A new kind of addict: Methadone clinics find new mission in fight against …
“We treat mainstream America,” said Ed Ohlinger, the regional director for 10 private, for-profit addiction treatment centers in the Southeast owned by CRC Health Group, including the Volunteer Treatment Center in Chattanooga. In Tennessee, methadone …
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At 'Last,' the Breeders return
Kelley was arrested in a drug bust in 1995 and forced to face up to years of heroin addiction. That's when — like Eric Clapton, Steven Tyler and many other musicians — she arrived in Minnesota to get clean at Hazelden in Center City. “It's a …
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Oregon finds efforts to treat drug addicts paying off
And Oregonians are much more likely to receive intensive treatment; for example, 10 percent of treatment admissions were to long-term, residential facilities, compared with 1.1 percent in Kentucky. Drug overdose death rates in 2008, the most recent …
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Shortage of mental-health professionals makes getting treatment more difficult
Aimed at shortening that wait is Amberwing, a new intensive mental-health treatment center for ages 0 to 25 in a building that seems more like a north woods lodge than a health facility. It's off Rice Lake Road not far from Marshall School, and it has …
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BOOKED: Prison Operator Sets Date To Become a REIT
GEO's worldwide operations include 20,000 employees, 109 correctional, detention and residential treatment facilities, including projects under development, and 75,000 owned and/or managed beds. The jailer brought in nearly $ 1.6 billion in revenue last …
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