Best Drug Rehabilitation CEO Per Wickstrom Interviews Joanna Cassidy at …
Best Drug Rehabilitation offers recovery geared to the personalized needs of each of each client, which is an option that makes the chance for long-term success much more likely. Both Joanna and I agree that what's really lacking in our society today, …
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Study Shows Pill Prevents HIV Among Drug Addicts
The potential impact of the treatment for drug addicts is greatest in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, where they account for up to 80 percent of infections. Many countries in those regions, for religious and political reasons, outlaw proven tactics …
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Initial triple-drug therapy best in new T2DM
CHICAGO – Starting patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes on the combination of metformin, pioglitazone, and exenatide from the get-go proved superior to standard guideline-recommended sequential add-on therapy with metformin, a sulfonylurea, …
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Neurofeedback Therapy an Effective, Non-Drug Treatment for ADHD
In November 2012, the American Academy of Pediatrics approved biofeedback and neurofeedback as a Level 1 or “best support” treatment option for children suffering from ADHD. For parents looking for an effective, non-drug treatment of ADHD, …
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Into Action Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center Donates Tiles to RiseUP Gallery …
Into Action Treatment is a small 24 bed coed Florida drug rehab center located in Boynton Beach. Into Action is a very unique center, which focuses on long term recovery for addicts and alcoholics. Most treatment centers in the industry are 28 days …
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New Drug May Be Best Treatment for Leukemia Yet
The pill, developed by The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute, works by targeting a particular enzyme within the cancer cells that feeds their growth.
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Sometimes doctors doing nothing is the best treatment for health
LOS ALTOS, CA, June 20, 2013 – In a recent New York Times column, Columbia University professor and infectious disease specialist, Dr. Abigail Zuger, shares a compelling story about a little known approach to treating sickness. Even though her …
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A Rising Tide of Substance Abuse
Baby boomers, who came of age in the '60s and '70s when experimenting with drugs was pervasive, are far more likely to use illicit drugs than previous generations. For example, a 2011 study by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services …
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GAO: No progress was made on reducing teen drug use
The strategy identified seven goals involved in reducing drug use among teens by 15 percent by 2015. The Government Accountability Office said the Office of National Drug Control Policy and other federal agencies had made progress toward one goal but …
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Anti-drug abuse coalition launches pot education…
Prompted by recent legislation that deemed marijuana legal for medical and recreational use, Macomb County drug abuse prevention organizations are fighting back. “There's a lot of talk about marijuana these days,” said Charlene McGunn, executive …
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Top 10 Things CDC Says You Should Know
Linebacker Austin Box of the Oklahoma Sooners takes a break during a game in 2010. Box died of an accidental prescription drug overdose the following year. Austin Box "gutted through" pain. Even after a bad blow to his back that ruptured a disc, the …
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Tyrann Mathieu insists LSU tried to help him with drug problem
"LSU has a strong drug testing program and LSU went to great lengths to help me in my treatment and recovery. I understand that many people enjoy reading about the negative side of sports, but to publish those second-hand comments without being given a …
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Yankees' Rodriguez Tied to Clinic Records Purchase
The assertions about Rodriguez's activities were conveyed to baseball officials through investigators who have been in Florida since last summer as they try to establish if the clinic was providing performance-enhancing drugs to major leaguers …
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First Narconon Program Graduate Celebrates Narconon's 47th Anniversary in …
Gordon Weinand, a graduate of the first Narconon drug rehab program delivered in an Arizona state prison in 1966, celebrates Narconon's 47th Anniversary and his 47th year of living drug free. “Narconon's 47th anniversary tribute would not be complete …
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Teams “constantly” bring up marijuana with Mathieu
Unlike performance-enhancing drugs, to which the NFL applies a one-strike attitude, players can test positive for marijuana multiple times before being suspended. When faced with ….. Mentored by Patrick Peterson, drafted by the Az Cardinals …
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James McGreevey, This Side of Redemption
After he stepped down in Trenton, the shock sent him for a month to the Meadows, a rehabilitation center in Arizona. Relentlessly excavating his …. She began using at 11; she lost custody of her infant son when she “copped drugs in his presence.” “I …
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Picking Addiction Help
One slip need not result in a return to abuse, and a good program will help addicts who have completed treatment cope effectively with future challenges to their recovery. How Families Can Help. “Addiction is a family illness,” Mr. Moyers wrote …
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Intensive outpatient treatment for substance abuse and addiction
Since it is provided on an outpatient basis, an individual can still work and get the help they need. An IOP provides the structure many people need in the first stage of recovery from alcohol and/or drug addiction. It may also serve as continuing-care …
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