The Delray Recovery Center Hosts a Workshop on Mindfulness in Therapy
The Delray Recovery Center is hosting a workshop titled “Mindfulness: Taking Your Clients Beyond Talk Therapy” and presented by Dawn Wiggins, LMFT, and Melinda Bruck, LMHC. In this workshop, participants will learn the benefits of mindfulness practices …
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Newport treatment center focuses on first responder trauma
NEWPORT BEACH – Dealing with graphic scenes and situations can be traumatic for first responders like paramedics, firefighters and police officers. These are the people Morningside Recovery is trying to reach. Morningside Recovery, a substance abuse …
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Now Available: Valiant Recovery Special Financing Program
(PRLEAP.COM) Kelowna, BC, Canada – Valiant Recovery offers luxury care to those who need help with substance recovery. There are programs of varying levels, but the drug treatment center started a special financing program for those who cannot afford …
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Letters: Focus more on addiction treatment
However, I have not seen enough written about treatment centers, in-house rehab centers or hospitals. I would like to read the perspectives of the staff members of these institutions. Do the hospitals treat addicts as vagrants? Do they know how badly …
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Officials: County addiction treatment system making strides
When people ask for help kicking an addiction to drugs or alcohol, experts say, one thing you don't want to tell them is, “Come back later.” Until recently, though, that's what some Dane County-funded drug treatment centers were doing. The results were …
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Local drug treatment options lacking for youth
Mortensen said outpatient treatment was not enough for her son, and she regrets not sending him to an inpatient facility before he turned 18. Her son completed five rounds of inpatient treatment over a period of two years. … Owen said the good news …
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Zoning meeting planned on drug rehab at former hospital
The Carbondale Planning Commission voted unanimously last week not to make a recommendation for Cindy Bellino's planned drug treatment clinic and detoxification center at the former Marian Community Hospital. It was the second time in the previous …
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Rethinking Rehab During a New Era of Opiate Addiction
Treatment can cost as much as $ 31,000 for 30 days at The Landing in Newport Beach, which overlooks the Pacific and offers massage and tai chi. Or there's the Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center in Anaheim, which is free but requires patients to …
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Heroin in Flagstaff a new challenge to drug treatment
The news that the actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman had died of a heroin overdose in New York City earlier this month was certainly shocking and sad. But in Flagstaff, it might have seemed like a story that at least couldn't happen here. Small cities on …
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Govt urged to focus more on preventing drug abuse
The 2013 annual report published by the United Nations-affiliated organization found that drug addicts in countries around the world, including Indonesia, lacked medical treatment from the state. The report shows that in every six drug addicts, only …
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South Jersey drug treatment providers: For heroin addicts, more inpatient care …
That's not a lot of time to see how well a law is working, but addiction treatment professionals in South Jersey have reservations about the law when it comes to a troubling trend in drug abuse. The law, the state Senate bill number of which was S881 …
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