HEALTH: New Port Centre marks 25th anniversary of providing residential …
PORT COLBORNE – The New Port Centre at the Port Colborne Site of the NHS offers residential and community addiction recovery treatment options to help people overcome substance use. This year marks a quarter century of providing residential addiction …
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Children to aid parent's recovery
Nguumanbiny Indigenous Corporation members Rebecca Chirps, Margie McDonell and Lynn Field (back) vow to drive down crime rates in Dubbo and Wellington with the establishment of the first residential rehab centre for families in the Central West …
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NH ranks 49th among states for access to alcohol, drug treatments
… a halfway house. McLoed said he has been clean since. “I was 50/50 about whether or not to go into a rehab or to go to a methadone clinic. I am really glad I chose rehab because I found a way of life where I would not find drugs necessary,” McLoed …
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War on drugs shifts: Health care law expands coverage for substance abuse …
Nationally, one in 10 people addicted to drugs or alcohol, or 20.7 million people, do not receive treatment, according to a report from the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse. America's current health care system does "little to …
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Could Americans ever give up their pills?
… that discussed how exercise may be as effective as medication in treating heart disease and other medical conditions. Those who fall on the side of more traditional medicine think this is crazy and believe that the studies supporting lifestyle …
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Yoga as an alternative therapy for AIDS
According. to the statistics there are 40,000 sex evokers in Sri Lanka. They serve over 200,000 men daily and each of them caters at least five to six clients per day in addition there are 40,000 drugs addicts and 20,000 beach boys. This has paved way …
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Saint Jude Retreats Announces Chairman Mark Scheeren's Recent Radio …
The Saint Jude Retreats is a non-disease, non-treatment based drug and alcohol program implementing proprietary methodology called Cognitive Behavioral Education (CBE). The program is the only effective alternative to alcohol rehab and drug treatment …
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Family of Drugs For Treating Childhood Tumor Recognized Through Gene …
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center A collaborative effort between St. Jude Children's Research Hospital-Washington University Pediatric Cancer Genome Project, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Fred Hutchinson …
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Boston Scientific's Watchman Device Gains US Advisers' Backing
The benefits outweigh risks associated with the surgical procedure to implant the device, advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted 13-1 yesterday during a meeting in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Boston Scientific is seeking approval of Watchman to …
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California Rehab Clinics Recruit Group Home Residents to Pad Client Lists
“The first one don't go nowhere.” That's why Thomas cherished the days when vans would pull up to take her and other residents to drug and alcohol rehab. Thomas didn't go for the therapy. She said she's been drug-free for a couple of years. She went …
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Rehab Racket: Clinics Recruit Group Home Residents to Fill Client Lists
“The first one don't go nowhere.” That's why Thomas cherished the days when vans would pull up to take her and other residents to drug and alcohol rehab. Thomas didn't go for the therapy. She said she's been drug-free for a couple of years. She went …
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Prison drug rehab program recommended for woman who attacked disabled …
Annis' sentence includes a recommendation that White be allowed to enter a drug treatment program in prison. White, 41, sent her stepfather to the hospital on Aug. 3. The victim was disabled from spinal surgery and a tracheotomy. Please login or …
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