Tehran Allows Test Run Of Alcohol Addiction Treatment Center
Tehran has issued a licence for the establishment of the city's first alcohol rehabilitation centre. ISNA reports that the head of the Public Health Department's Addiction Prevention Centre announced that the licence is for a pilot project for the …
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Crowd Packs Camden Meeting Over Zone Change for Alcohol Rehab Center
Camden – A proposal to put an alcohol rehab center in Camden drew an overflow crowd last night to a town planning board meeting. A majority of the people opposed the project. Fox Hill Real Estate is asking for a zoning change to allow a residential …
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Addiction centre boss calls for abstinence approach to drug treatment programmes
THE boss of a Burton rehabilitation centre has called on government ministers to honour commitments to move heroin addicts away from methadone treatment programmes. Noreen Oliver, chief executive of Burton Addiction Centre, made the comments after …
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Port St. Lucie zoning board approves site plan, denies zoning change for …
… comment period of the Port St. Lucie Planning. Photo by Eric Hasert. A resident speaks Tuesday during the public comment period of the Port St. Lucie Planning and Zoning Board meeting on a proposed drug treatment facility in the Torino neighborhood.
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Pennsylvania hospital to open country's first inpatient treatment program for …
The story of Roberts, who came to grips with his addiction through years of therapy and spiritual retreats, is not unique. Treatment facilities have sprung up in recent years, but a psychiatric hospital in central Pennsylvania is now set to become the …
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Drug-Based Treatment for Acute Pancreatitis, Commonly Alcohol-Related
First Posted: Sep 03, 2013 01:12 PM EDT. Pancreas (Photo : Wikipedia ). Scientists are working on the first drug-based treatment for acute pancreatitis, a disease that is often alcohol related and for which there is no common treatment. Like Us on …
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Forced Drug Treatment
The Duke study evaluating whether improved clinical outcomes result from psychiatric coercion (“Program Compelling Outpatient Treatment for Mental Illness Is Working, Study Says,” news article, July 30) shows that if disturbed people are forced out of …
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Heroin use on the rise in rural areas
Legal drug consumption spaces aimed at drug rehabilitation have been set up in Germany where drug addicts can take drugs in clean and safe conditions under surveillance of volunteers. by Gigi Douban · Marketplace for Monday, September 2, 2013. Story …
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'Addicted man of Europe': Study says drug, alcohol addiction a crisis in UK
As local government feels the pinch of austerity, 55% of local councils in England have had their funding cut for residential drug treatment, what is known as rehab or rehabilitation, despite Cameron arguing that he wants to see more residential drug …
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Alcohol Treatment Toms River Restructures Plans to Help More Recovering …
Alcohol Treatment Toms River now offers an even wider variety of alcohol and drug abuse treatment plans. The hesitancy to go to a rehabilitation center inspired Alcohol Treatment Toms River to restructure their existing programs to appeal to anyone and …
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Historic Utah heroin bust may have impacted many lives
Often times, those users end up in rehab. According to the Utah Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health, 17,264 people were admitted to publicly funded drug treatment centers in 2012. Of those, 21.2 percent said heroin or other opiates were their …
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Utah Pays k to Nab 12 Welfare Applicants For Drug Use
One of these ways is to test people on welfare for drugs so they either get treated or are taken off welfare altogether. Utah chose the former option, and it cost $ 30,000 to get … 12 people in drug rehab. The Mormon motherland is not the first one to …
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Iowa Juvenile Home cited for violations in its drug-abuse treatment program
DES MOINES (AP) — The Iowa Juvenile Home has been given 15 citations for violations in its substance-abuse treatment program, according to a new inspection. The violations resulting from the July 29 visit included lack of oversight and failure to …
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Youth drug treatment center needed on Kauai, study finds
A newly released feasibility study supports Kauai Mayor Bernard Carvalho Jr.'s push for a new residential drug treatment facility for adolescents on Kauai. The study, which was conducted by Norma Doctor Sparks and Steve Sparks of Koloa-based Families …
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