Delray Recovery Center Offers New Gestalt Therapy Program for Addiction …
Florida's Delray Recovery Center offers drug and alcohol addiction treatments as well as programs for eating disorders and co-occurring disorders including depression, anxiety and bipolar disorder. The center is offering a new Gestalt therapy program …
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West Virginia Mayor Danny Jones 'Relieved' After Son's Drug Arrest
The answer is simple.. save his life by paying a treatment center to treat him. Are you that cheap that you wont pay for his life? … Timothy – treatment centers aren't cheap – I have a friend that is an addict and her parents can't afford the …
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Wanda's Picks for March 2013
It just so happens, the price is so high, institutions like Wayne State, where the first installment of Mrs. Parks' papers went in 1976, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture cannot afford the hefty $ 6-$ 10 million price tag. That a …
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Seeking a cure for prescription drug abuse
School programming has played a part in raising the awareness of prescription drug abuse. Liberty Public Schools offers drug abuse prevention resources at multiple grade levels. These programs include the annual Parent University event at Liberty North …
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Tomblin to ignore council's advice on solving substance abuse ills
Two of them are attempts to get more money to help the roughly 150,000 West Virginians who need treatment for drug abuse problems. One idea was to get some money out of the state's $ 913 million dollar rainy day funds to help build treatment centers.
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AFL summit sends wrong message on illicit drug use
But the most concerning thing to emerge from AFL drug summit is the strong public message being given by many involved: that all instances of illicit drug use require correction or rehabilitation through mental health counselling and medical treatment.
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Report: Invest in Drug Treatment Instead of Punishment
Instead of throwing drug addicts in jail, the state should invest more money in substance abuse treatment, says a report issued Thursday by the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition, which adds that the move could provide millions of dollars in savings and …
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'These people are murderers': The drug network behind a deadly outbreak (Part 2)
Water was leaking through the walls from the boiler, which could explain how a deadly fungus got into those drugs. Alyson Oliver is a Michigan attorney who flew out east to do her own inspection of the center. She's representing several clients …
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GUEST COLUMN/OPINION: Another Young Woman "Murdered" by Heroin
Sadly, Meagan Cregut Steele is now another link of a sadistic chain that binds Huntington, West Virginia with Detroit, Michigan. Meagan Cregut Steele is another statistic, another … On election day of 2012, two Detroit drug dealers were gunned down …
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Living and Dying in Prison
Nationally, medical expenses averaged $ 5,500 per prisoner per year, according to the Michigan Senate Fiscal Agency. …. "The ultimate in rehabilitation is learning to care deeply for another person, that's how you find your own humanity," said Powell …
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Former LSU star Tyrann Mathieu says goodbye to the 'Honey Badger'
That's what the former Heisman Trophy finalist is saying, anyway, as he tries to rebuild his reputation following a dismissal from LSU last August for failing multiple drug tests and an arrest for marijuana possession in October. "I think at … Up …
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Prisoners face long wait for drug–rehab services
The federal system's struggle to keep pace with its drug offender population continues as some of the largest state prison systems, including California and Texas, have been increasingly diverting drug and other offenders to treatment or less costly …
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Study Finds Drug Rehab Could Reduce WV Prison Overcrowding
A new study suggests that West Virginia can reduce prison overcrowding by providing substance abuse treatment to offenders that are on probation or parole. But as the "war on drugs" rages on, not everyone thinks that program would work the way it's …
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