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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Alcohol Treatment Newark's New Programs Prepare Alcoholics for Life After …
Alcohol Treatment Newark's New Programs Prepare Alcoholics for Life After Rehab. Alcohol Treatment Newark now offers new programs which focus on preparing patients struggling with alcohol abuse for everyday situations involving alcohol. Share on …
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Alcohol Treatment Paterson Offers a Variety of No Excuse Treatment Plans
Alcohol Treatment Paterson is now offering an even larger array of substance abuse treatment plans. Aware of the reluctance to attend rehab by a great number of addicts, Alcohol Treatment Paterson began to restructure their programs to appeal to an …
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Rally4Recovery kicks off in Providence, aims to help people conquer addiction
Then, he found help in a 12-step program. Dale K. Klatzker, president and chief executive officer of The Providence Center, a community behavioral health agency, said that only a small fraction of people who need alcohol or substance abuse treatment …
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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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California Lawmakers Order Audit of Taxpayer-Funded Drug Rehab Program
Karen Johnson, chief deputy director of the California Department of Health Care Services, speaks before the Legislature's Joint Legislative Audit Committee. She said authorities welcome a state audit of the Drug Medi-Cal drug rehab program for the poor.
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Best Drug Rehabilitation CEO Per Wickstrom Salutes Detroit's Hometown …
Per Wickstrom, the CEO of holistic treatment facilities including Best Drug Rehabilitation, recently took center stage at the Detroit's Hometown Heroes event in order to share a critically important message that, he believes, is going to ultimately win …
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Middleboro divided over drug rehabilitation facility
A town board has kept alive, at least from the present, the bid of High Point Treatment Center to open a a 72-bed mental health and drug rehabilitation facility in the downtown. The Zoning Board of Appeals had heard two hours of testimony at a meeting …
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Question by nunya: Does anyone know at least 4 to 7 places where someone can get long term treatment for drug addiction?
This is for D.A.R.E

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Answer by cintchick
The link I included below will take you to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) treatment center locator. SAMHSA is a division of the US Department of Health and Human Services

Enter a city and state, then select “Continue”. You will then be offered options to target your search. In your case, under “Services Provided” you would select “Substance Abuse” and under “Type of Care” you would select “Residential Long-Term Treatment” and/or “Hospital Inpatient”. Again, select “Continue”. You will then see a list of centers with their contact information, as well as a summary of the services they offer and forms of payment accepted.

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Question by MacCheese: How to help a HSP in depression?
hi, my gf is a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP). She is going through i believe a deep depression now after she’s undergone the removal of a growth. Since the operation she has been feeling that she is at the junction of her life where she’s lost and not knowing what she wants. Family matters and work are also causing her plenty of stress, and relationship has become a luxury that she couldn’t afford or handle..she often tells me that she’s at the edge of breaking down, and feels that she has got no more energy to put any effort into our relationship. I keep telling her it’s ok, i’m here to support her and i’m not expecting anything from her. Being a HSP, she needs a lot of solutitude time and she hasn’t been getting enough of that..She is feeling not right about her body and the fear of going through the operation is affecting her tremendously…she loves me yet touching her has become a torture for her as if i’m just some guys out there..those are her words..I’ve tried supporting h

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Answer by Sacha R
It’s a fairly common effect of depression, in females. My standard post follows: See depression treatments, at http://www.ezy-build.net.nz/~shaneris in section 2, and consult a doctor, to eliminate thyroid problems, etc. as possible contributing factors: also seek a referral to a therapist using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy. It is your decision, and yours alone, as to whether to take any antidepressants offered, but, before you do, read section 1, and check medications out at www.drugs.com so you will be on the lookout for side effects, like sexual dysfunction. My strong recommendation, however, is to follow the advice of my doctor, his partner, and also Marcelle Pick, OB/GYN NP, and Dr. Mercola, as well, at http://www.mercola.com and avoid antidepressants (page 2V refers, & antidepressant websites: page 2). All of their advice, (except prayer, because many people are not religious) I have incorporated into the “core treatments”, including others as options, such as herbal remedies. If you are diagnosed with clinical (major) depression, antidepressants may be necessary for a while, which will give the treatments time to become effective. The antidepressants themselves need at least several days, or even many weeks to become effective. It’s a good idea to taper off them slowly, with medical advice, after several months, say, to a couple of years, at most, because they are only effective in the long term for about 30% of people. Because of this, you would be well advised to begin the treatments immediately, and maintain them. I’d just thank your mental health care provider, and pocket the prescription, trying the treatments for a few months, to see if they are sufficient for you, before considering filling it (unless clinically depressed, and having great difficulty functioning, in which case I’d take them). Stress is addressed on page 42. Print/refer her. Talk to her family, telling them that she really needs their support right now, or big problems lie ahead for both her, and them. Can you contact her workplace, and ask that they ease off with her for a several weeks, if they value her, and want to keep her, as she recovers, or would she not want that, and consider it inappropriate?

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Saint Jude Retreats Launches Alcohol Addiction Awareness Videos
Many of these programs support the substance user referring to themselves as an "addict" or admitting they are an alcoholic. Since Saint Jude Retreats is non-diseased based the program does not use damaging labels, in fact the program does not support …
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Alcohol and drug use can progress into abuse and even addiction so insidiously that sometimes people do not realize that it has become a problem for them and those around them. The following self-assessment tests can help you determine whether or not …
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Alcohol a large growing problem in the region
"Croatia has a well-developed network of hospitals that provide treatment for people addicted to alcohol and those who because of that have health consequences. A network of activities for outpatient mental health and addiction treatment has developed …
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