Heroin's Small-Town Toll, and a Mother's Grief
But the government would not pay for inpatient treatment, and Ms. Hale, uninsured, could not afford to send her daughter an hour away to Hazelden, one of the best-known rehab programs in the country. Still, after the detox, in early 2013, Ms. Ivy …
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After 75 Years of Alcoholics Anonymous, It's Time to Admit We Have a Problem
… Greatest Tragedy, which includes a chapter aimed at debunking the idea that AA is the only way. The author Anne Fletcher released Inside Rehab: The Surprising Truth About Addiction Treatment and How To Get Help That Works, a deeply reported exposé …
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High-End Red Hook Rehab Center to Offer Free Drug Screening for Locals
Sorensen and Michael Mosberg, the team behind Urban Recovery House, met with a small group of residents Wednesday night to discuss their center's work and future Red Hook location. The boutique 30-bed inpatient facility, in a 20,000-square-foot …
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His Death, Their Lives
As Jim tells it, his relapse lasted four years, and required four months of rehab, including an extended stay at the Betty Ford Center. He remains mystified by the fact that he didn't die; that he was able to make it back to Alcoholics Anonymous when …
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Fighting 'Observation' Status
Medicare drug plans are not required to reimburse patients for these drug costs. The over-classification of observation status is an … “It's got to be a medical argument,” said Ms. Berthelot. “You can't say, 'Mom will need rehab after this,' or 'We …
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Proposed Camden treatment center & Malibu's only thing in common: The View
A Sept. 15 piece in The New York Times detailed how opportunists in Malibu, California, are scrambling to purchase properties and convert them into alcohol and drug treatment centers. Neighbors challenging a proposal to open a residential alcohol and …
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Passages Malibu Offers Tips for Starting Fresh in the New Year
"We welcome anyone who's made the choice to stop using drugs or alcohol," said Pax Prentiss, CEO of Passages Addiction Treatment Centers. "The exceptional treatment team we've assembled at Passages does an excellent job of empowering our clientele …
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St. Joe's opens 'occu-med' clinic
Madison St. Joseph Health Center recently introduced a new Occupational Medicine Clinic in Madisonville. The clinic focuses on the prevention, evaluation, treatment, and resolution of health conditions caused by the workplace environment. The program …
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At Clinics, Tumultuous Lives and Turbulent Care
Deeply in debt, Dr. Clark was reduced to collecting food stamps until Pennsylvania let him return to medicine as a prison doctor in 2003. That same year, after a positive drug test, Dr. Clark entered his third treatment program and promised himself it …
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Addiction Treatment With a Dark Side
His father heard him gasping and intervened, a reprieve that led Mr. Schneider into rehab, not his first program, but the one where he discovered buprenorphine, a substitute opioid used to treat opioid addiction. In the two years since, by taking his …
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Grand opening of clinic demonstrates problems treating drug addicts
Even though Tuesday was a day of celebration at the new Recovery Ottawa drug treatment centre, there was a lot of anger just under the surface. As the grand opening celebrations took place, a lone addict made a bee-line for the buffet table. Loud and …
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