TreatmentUSA.com Partners With CRC Health to Expand Its Drug and Alcohol …
TreatmentUSA.com, a referral service for those seeking drug and alcohol addiction treatment, which offers its services for free, has now partnered with CRC to ease the process of getting into inpatient residential rehab programs using Tricare insurance.
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Drug, alcohol rehab: an empty promise?
We read every day about notorious failures of drug and alcohol rehab, made even more public by Hollywood's perpetually neurotic glitterati. Is it all a scam? Well, in fact, some people do successfully untangle themselves from drug and/or alcohol abuse.
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Demand Rises For Holistic Alcohol & Drug Rehab, Australian Addiction And …
Over the past year, the demand for natural mental health services and alcohol & drug rehabilitation at The Australian Addiction and Trauma Treatment Centre has risen. The holistic centre has experienced a 50% enquiry increase from those seeking an …
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Health care reform, Medicaid expansion could flood Wash. addiction treatment …
Lack of insurance and the cost of private care get a lot of the blame for nearly half a million Washington residents not getting the addiction help they need. The health care overhaul and the expansion of Medicaid it calls for are expected to change …
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Obamacare Will Provide Regular Citizens the Same Rehab Services Celebs Get
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Into Action Drug Treatment Center Visits the Arts Garage in Delray Beach, Florida
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 drug treatment centers in the industry are 28 …
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Lindsay Lohan Rehab Delay? Actress Waiting Until Last Minute to Pick …
"Lindsay is now saying that she wants to go to rehab in California and she's looking for a treatment center, and she thinks that this might help her buy some more time too," the source said. It was reported that the star had not yet made up her mind …
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Malibu rehab centers remain cause for concern
Clients pay anywhere from $ 30,000 to $ 60,000 for treatment at rehab centers like Passages, above. Posted: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 6:45 am. Malibu rehab centers remain cause for concern By Melissa Caskey / [email protected] The Mailbu …
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Question by oblivious: how did elliot smith die?

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Elliott Smith died on October 21, 2003 in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles, California at age 34, from two stab wounds to the chest during an emotional fight with Jennifer Chiba. [16] According to her account, the two were arguing when she locked herself in the bathroom. Chiba heard him scream, and upon opening the door, saw Smith standing there with a steak knife in his chest. She pulled the knife out of him, after which Smith collapsed and she called 911. The time of death was listed at 12:18 PM. While originally reported as a suicide, the official autopsy report released in late December 2003 left the question of possible homicide open:
While his history of depression is compatible with suicide, and the location and direction of the stab wound is consistent with self-infliction, several aspects of the circumstances (as are known at this time) are atypical of suicide and raise the possibility of homicide. These include the absence of hesitation wounds, stabbing through clothing, and the presence of small incised wounds on the right arm and left hand (possible defensive wounds). Additionally, the girlfriend’s [Jennifer Chiba’s] reported removal of the knife and subsequent refusal to speak with detectives are all of concern.

According to the coroner’s report, the alleged suicide note, written on a Post-it, read, I’m so sorry – love, Elliot. God forgive me. The misspelling of “Elliott” was later acknowledged as a mistake on the part of the coroner. Robin Peringer, one of the singers few close friends towards the end of his life, says that Smith was a “cutter”, which would help explain the “possible defensive wounds.” Fritz Michaud, an engineer during the Basement sessions, claimed that “Elliott literally wouldn’t have been caught dead without his shirt on,” possibly explaining why the stab wounds penetrated his shirt (something extremely uncommonly seen in stabbing suicides).

His death has not been officially declared a suicide, and the investigation into his death continues, although almost no new information at all has publicly come to light since 2003.

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While many top-market pills have gone off patent, the pharmaceutical industry …
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Ginger Rutland: A rehab program for ex-cons the county should embrace
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Hope By The Sea, California Drug & Alcohol Treatment Center, Exhibits At The …
About Celebrate Hope: Celebrate Hope is Hope by the Sea's Christian Residential Drug Rehab and Alcohol Treatment Program, located in the coastal communities of Orange County Southern California. As an integrated component of one of the very best …
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