Judge: Drug abuse cases are turning courts into emergency rooms
BOSTON – In 2012, the district courts in Quincy, Brockton and Plymouth ranked first, third and fourth in the state in the number of referrals for involuntary commitments to drug-abuse treatment centers. Quincy District Court court topped Boston's eight …
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Houston Pain Management Now Offering Outpatient Drug Rehab with a Board …
Houston Pain management is now offering outpatient drug rehab treatment with a licensed, Board Certified Suboxone provider. Suboxone has been a revolutionary treatment for drug addiction treatment, and Houston Pain Management provides highly skilled, …
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Assisted Outpatient Treatment: Let's 'Assist' Patients By Forcing Them
Assisted Outpatient Treatment: Let's 'Assist' Patients By Forcing Them Assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) is a marketing term for involuntary commitment, but in an outpatient setting. AOT is like putting lipstick on a pig and calling her a princess …
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Through the mental health revolving door [Letter]
As a parent of a child suffering for 14 years from a devastating severe mental illness — one that includes zero awareness and utter denial that the illness exists — I am bewildered why Maryland has failed to create an assisted outpatient treatment …
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Pain Management Clinic of Corpus Christi Now Offering Outpatient Treatments …
The Pain Management Clinic of Corpus Christi is now offering an outpatient treatment for spinal fractures that has an extremely high success rate for Immediate pain relief and getting patients more ambulatory. The Corpus Christi pain management doctors …
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Mental health facilities have a 'revolving door'
Thousands of times a year in Missouri and Kansas, authorities commit people with mental health issues into treatment facilities. Police show up and escort away the sick. Involuntary commitment orders are filed in court. Hearings are held. Families agonize.
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Mental health treatment center plan worth considering
Southern Nevada had a mental health crisis before there was a mental health crisis. Before the mass shootings at Virginia Tech, a suburban Denver movie theater and Sandy Hook Elementary School. Before other states were cutting back their mental health …
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Dearth of mental health treatment options leads to emergencies
Bryan Johnson didn't know he had bipolar disorder until he ended up at the emergency room, where he assaulted a police officer. His family had taken him to the University of Maryland Medical Center because he was acting strangely, staring into the …
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