Bay Area Recovery Announce New Alcohol Rehab Services
Bay Area Recovery has been providing residents throughout the local area with excellent treatment options for many years, and it recently has announced new alcohol rehab services to improve its service to local clients. There are five Bay Area Recovery …
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Passages Malibu Announces New Insurance Acceptance Initiative
Passages provides one of the most comprehensive addiction treatment programs in the world with services including detox, substance abuse counseling, life purpose counseling, hypnotherapy, physical therapy, psychotherapy and many others.
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Philip Seymour Hoffman 'dealer' says HE has a drug problem as he tries to be …
Meanwhile, a third 'dealer', Robert Vineberg said that his heroin addiction was a major factor in his alleged crimes, and asked for the case to go to a drug court designed to channel users to rehab instead of prison. Friends in high places: Robert …
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New Maplewood Drug Rehab and Detox Helpline Aids Search for Substance …
Operators are available at all hours to provide information, guidance and support for any teen seeking help for substance abuse. The helpline can provide valuable information on the latest treatment programs offered at rehab centers. Parents can use …
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Heroin addicts who want help face insurance denials
Then Richard Caruso, who oversees the treatment programs at Unity Health Systems' Chemical Dependency, called the man's insurance company for approval. Caruso recalled that the man had coverage, but the insurer declined to pay unless he had first …
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Bill offers treatment for DUI offenders
It allows a judge, as a condition of probation to order a second or third time DUI offender to participate in an inpatient or intensive outpatient substance abuse treatment program following a clinical substance abuse assessment. The offender will be …
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Special Report: Vermont spends millions on addiction-fighting drug that is …
Thirty-eight physicians and 11 treatment programs in Vermont are on the website of the federal agency that authorizes doctors to prescribe buprenorphine, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The list, however, includes at …
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Washington County Law Enforcement Hope To Raise Community Awareness Of …
Jordan said he's working with the sheriff's office to develop and expand opioid and prescription-drug addiction treatment programs for those beyond the felony level to the user-realm. Jordan said the agencies are seeking ways to prevent the problem …
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The Low Down: Berkeley council on parks funding, 2014 elections, youth on …
In a separate item, council is also scheduled to discuss programs it may wish to consider funding through a revenue measure — or measures — on the November 2014 ballot. A community survey related to those programs is projected to cost $ 29,000. A …
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Heroin's Small-Town Toll, and a Mother's Grief
Phil Drewiske, 23, who embraced recovery in prison after five overdoses and a dozen failed treatment programs, said he bore some responsibility for introducing heroin to the town. The son of local … During that period, Ms. Hale was shuttling to …
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Heroin deaths, police seizures and addictions on the rise in Genesee County
And heroin-related admissions at publicly funded treatment centers in the county are at "epidemic" levels. In Genesee County and the state of Michigan, experts say, heroin is second only to alcohol in the number of addicts who report it as their drug …
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Skyrocketing heroin use in Central Oregon
“It's just a matter of time before somebody offers you the heroin or you know where you can get it,” said Barrett Hamilton, a recovery mentor at Best Care Treatment Centers in Redmond. “And even though you may have already said, 'I'll never do heroin …
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