Lack of aid options, affordable housing prolongs homelessness
In the end, the Julian F. Keith Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Center – the only low-cost, inpatient drug rehab in Western North Carolina – survived the chopping block with a 12 percent cut in funding. It wasn't the first time the agency's funding …
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Four years after passage of Obamacare, health care system remains in crisis
LOUIS — When federal lawmakers agreed in 2010 to pass the Affordable Care Act, they recognized that the U.S. health care system was in desperate straits. Not only was …. Cardiology labs and cancer treatment centers are huge profit centers for hospitals.
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California parolee rearrest rate not improving
In the first year of realignment, counties budgeted 16% of the $ 367 million they received from the state for services such as mental health and drug treatment, according to a report last year by the Stanford Criminal Justice Center. "Far too many …
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Rep. Serpa Attends Seminar Exploring Science Behind Addiction, Treatment …
27, Coventry, Warwick, West Warwick) recently attended a three-day bipartisan workshop, titled: “The Science that Underlies Drug Abuse, Addiction, Treatment and Prevention” as part of a The National Conference of State Legislatures' (NCSL) Addiction …
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Narconon Fresh Start Celebrates Impressive Drug Rehabilitation Success
With a mission of providing effective drug and alcohol prevention and treatment, the program is aimed at combating the ever-growing problem of drug and alcohol addiction in the United States. Releasing stats that include a success rate of over 76%, the …
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Free Drug and Alcohol Addiction Treatment? We Can Fix That!
Imagine a treatment for drug addiction and alcoholism that uses no drugs, requires no trained personnel, resources or insurance and makes no money for anyone. This “people's program” is the anonymous 12-Step groups which have quietly saved millions …
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New Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center Maryland Addiction Recovery Center …
Maryland Addiction Recovery Center, a new drug and alcohol treatment program based in Towson, Maryland, announced their opening this week based on the extensive need for more drug abuse treatment in the area as well as due to the new parity benefits …
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Saint Jude Retreats Releases Radio Interview with Gabrielle Glaser
Saint Jude Retreats is a non-profit organization that offers an alternative program to rehab and treatment that helps individuals change and overcome alcohol and drug abuse and other addictions. The Cognitive Behavioral Education based program is …
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Piikani Alcoholics Anonymous chapter sees success after twenty years of …
With on-reserve help for Piikani's addicts nonexistent for the past two decades, it took a Brocket resident, himself coming out of a rehab facility in B.C, to create a welcoming, nurturing and culturally relevant support system to help his fellow …
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Why We Binge-Watch TV
She just gave birth to a baby girl, Harper, and is married to Evan Haines, whom she met while attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. But prior to that, she had been arrested for possession of black tar heroin, and was ordered to spend a year in …
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Addiction treatment center director offers advice for helping addicts
Jim Steinhagen, executive director of addiction treatment center Hazelden in Plymouth, offered advice: “Listen to the voice in your head. Trust your intuition.” Telltale signs of drug abuse include changes in personality, appearance, friends and school …
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Is rehab harder for women?
“What's emerged is that treating women for addiction is often about treating trauma,” he says. While trauma isn't, of course, limited to women, the fact that addicts tend to start using much earlier now than they used to—Brown estimates the average …
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Saint Jude Retreats Announces Radio Interview With Gabrielle Glaser
Saint Jude Retreats is a non-profit organization that offers an alternative program to rehab and treatment that helps individuals change and overcome alcohol and drug abuse and other addictions. The Cognitive Behavioral Education based program is …
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Atwater: Selfish, childish behavior can turn self-destructive
Within 48 hours, Laurie was in her first adolescent drug and alcohol rehab. This wasn't Laurie's last rehab stay, but her parents started to understand what they were dealing with and slowly began to treat her like a person with an illness rather than …
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