Delray Recovery Center Now Offers 12-Step Addiction Treatment Services
Delray Recovery Center is a Florida treatment facility that offers alcohol and drug addiction programs, as well as help for eating disorders and co-occurring disorders that include depression, anxiety and bipolar disorder. Delray Recovery Center has …
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New Freedom Treatment Center Rehabilitation Courses Focus on Life Skills
Freedom Drug Rehab, an alcohol and drug addiction treatment facility in Southern Michigan, is enhancing their comprehensive drug rehabilitation services to give clients the tools they need to transform their lives post-addiction. The center's new life …
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Authorities grapple with substance abuse solutions
Jacksonville has counseling services, a methadone clinic and a crisis center available. However, there is no local inpatient treatment facility for those with substance abuse issues. “We do a lot of recommendations to the Wilmington treatment centers …
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Health Care
NEW HAVEN — In the first studies to examine how the public views people with an addiction to food, researchers at the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at Yale found that while this addiction is less vulnerable to public stigma than others, it …
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Homeless plan makes headway
Another gap in the continuum is the lack of a mid-valley medical detox facility. The closest one is in Eugene, Hass-Holcombe said, making it difficult and expensive for local residents to access addiction treatment. “That is a big and complicated issue …
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Camden sounds off on proposed high-end rehabilitation facility
[which,] in dual addiction, it is used very, very frequently by McLean Hospital" and similar medical facilities. Suboxone is an opioid medication used to treat narcotic addiction. "There is going to be no methadone clinic on the property as long as I …
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Authorities grapple with substance abuse solutions
MOREHEAD CITY — The issue of substance abuse is one viewed from many sides as area authorities deal with the latest trends and local communities reach out to help those seeking treatment. Jacksonville has counseling services, a methadone clinic and …
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Tomblin's prison crowding bill looks at substance abuse, mental health
The measure also would add a person with a background in substance abuse treatment and services to the community criminal justice boards of each county or combination of counties and would require probation officers to conduct standardized risk and …
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Federal rules eased for opioid addiction treatment drug
In 2011, the White House launched a national plan to take a multifaceted approach toward fighting prescription drug abuse. Kerlikowske, known to many as the White House's drug czar, highlighted the latest efforts to combat drug diversion, boost …
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Authorities grapple with substance abuse solutions
Jacksonville has counseling services, a methadone clinic and a crisis center available. However, there is no local inpatient treatment facility for those with substance abuse issues. “We do a lot of recommendations to the Wilmington treatment centers …
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New Found Life Substance Abuse Treatment Center of Delray Beach, Florida …
Ms. Amico has dedicated her life to helping families navigate successfully through mental health challenges, chemical addictions and eating disorders including bulimia and anorexia. New Found Life Substance Abuse Treatment Center of Delray Beach, …
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Adolescent Drug Addiction Program Kicks Off at New Jersey Treatment Center
Jamie Monsell, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, has spent her career working with adolescents and previously ran several drug treatment programs in the area. Sharon Fleischman, a nurse and former Substance Abuse Counselor at East Brunswick High …
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New Jersey lawmakers hear testimony on a drug that mitigates overdoses' effects
Admissions to facilities for opiate treatment among those 17 to 25 has doubled every two years since 2000, according to John L. Hulick, executive director of New Jersey's Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse. New Jersey already protects underage …
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Drug clinic says it will open despite objections
Soria and Bucklew both agreed that Dayton and the entire state need more opiate addiction treatment centers. Montgomery County's only public methadone clinic is Project Cure on James H. McGee Boulevard. Soria said that is a clear reason to open the …
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Local treatment facilities see increased demand with alcohol, prescription …
The stereotypes about addiction — that somehow only lazy or weak-minded people grapple with substance abuse — can drive a man crazy. “I drank the way I do everything — to the extreme. That's how I do work, sports, everything,” said a 50-year-old …
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Pinnacle Treatment Center acquires Covington Methadone Clinic
Pinnacle Treatment Centers, which operates a network of drug and alcohol treatment centers, has acquired NKY MED LLC and plans to open a Covington outpatient addiction treatment facility. The Pinnacle facility will be located at the former Save- A- Lot …
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