Barriers Remain Despite Health Law's Push To Expand Access To Substance …
As a result of the limitation, drug rehabilitation centers across the nation are turning away new Medicaid beneficiaries who need residential treatment and now are entitled to receive it under Obamacare. "The unintended consequence is that you are …
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Heroin Addicts Face Barriers to Treatment
As the ranks of heroin users rise, increasing numbers of addicts are looking for help but are failing to find it — because there are no beds in packed facilities, treatment is hugely expensive and insurance companies won't pay for inpatient rehab …
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Co-Dependence and Young Adult Issues Explored at Promises Treatment …
Whether an individual requires detox, residential drug rehab, outpatient treatment, extended care or a sober living environment, Promises has been a drug rehabilitation center of choice for more than 25 years. For more information about Promises …
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Annexation Bad News For Crimea's Rehab Patients
Russian authorities have ordered all methadone distribution centers in Crimea to shut down by April 30. But with … Crimea's new de facto authorities have already offered to send methadone patients to Russia for detoxification and rehabilitation …
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Barriers Remain Despite Health Law's Push To Expand Access To Substance …
As a result of the limitation, drug rehabilitation centers across the nation are turning away new Medicaid beneficiaries who need residential treatment and now are entitled to receive it under Obamacare. "The unintended consequence is that you are …
Read more on Kaiser Health News

Rehab centers struggle to keep drugs out
When Bethany Ehrhart, 23, wanted to kick her addiction to painkillers, her mother, Darlene, found the money for top-of-the-line treatment at the world-renowned Betty Ford Center. A week after her arrival at the celebrity rehab in Rancho Mirage, Calif …
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Health law could overwhelm addiction services
“There is no illness currently being treated that will be more affected by the Affordable Care Act than addiction,” said Tom McLellan, CEO of the nonprofit Treatment Research Institute and President Barack Obama's former deputy drug czar. “That's …
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Agencies work to curb drug abuse
Neighbors Building Neighborhoods, which seeks to ensure safe neighborhoods, has several programs to help stem prescription drug abuse, Roberts said. The organization will have a prescription drug disposal event from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 26 at the …
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Health law could overwhelm addiction services
CHICAGO — It has been six decades since doctors concluded that addiction was a disease that could be treated, but today the condition still dwells on the fringes of the medical community. Only 1 cent of every health care dollar in the United States …
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'The saddest chapter modern society has'
Prescription drug abuse in recent years has become more widespread, according to several government agencies, and that's led law enforcement agencies across the country to crack down on violators. In the local operation, authorities arrested young and …
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Health law could overwhelm addiction services
"There is no illness currently being treated that will be more affected by the Affordable Care Act than addiction," said Tom McLellan, CEO of the nonprofit Treatment Research Institute and President Barack Obama's former deputy drug czar. "That's …
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Health law to open access to addiction treatment
The Affordable Care Act established 10 mandatory "essential health benefits" that need to be covered by individual and small group insurance plans. One of those benefits is behavioral health, which includes addiction treatment. "Addiction, because it …
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