Pennsylvania hospital to open country's first inpatient treatment program for …
Treatment facilities have sprung up in recent years, but a psychiatric hospital in central Pennsylvania is now set to become the country's first facility of its kind to offer an inpatient treatment program for people it diagnoses with severe Internet …
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Four beds ready to treat Internet addicts
That sentiment could change on Monday, when the country's first inpatient treatment program for Internet addiction opens at Bradford Regional Medical Center in Pennsylvania. "I've been studying Internet addiction since 1994," says Dr. Kimberly Young, …
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Post 9/11 veterans' lifetime medical costs mounting
No government agency has calculated fully the lifetime cost of health care for the large number of post-9/11 veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with life-lasting wounds. But it is certain to be high, with … TBI, for example, may lead to …
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Former baseball player and drug addict finds solace in rare rehab program
Eric Graham graduated from the STARR program in Durham after being arrested on larceny charges. He supported his drug habit by stealing hundreds of DVDs from area Target and Walmart stores. Court records list 10 larceny charges this year in Durham, …
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Unpacking Shirley v. Precision Castparts Corp.: when do drug rehab programs …
The Circuit said that merely entering a rehab program does not automatically trigger the safe harbor. Current users in rehab are not absolutely protected from termination. The employee had used drugs illegally in the weeks preceding the termination and …
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Pennsylvania hospital to open country's first inpatient treatment program for …
The program was organized by experts in the field and cognitive specialists with backgrounds in treating more familiar addictions like drug and alcohol abuse. "[Internet addiction] is a problem in this country that can be more pervasive than alcoholism …
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Country's First Internet-Addiction Treatment Center Opens Today in PA
When you hear the phrase “Internet addiction,” your first instinct might be to laugh it off as a #firstworldproblem rather than consider it a real psychological issue. I mean, who doesn't freak out when their Instagram feed won't load? And we're all …
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First US inpatient treatment center for Internet addiction opening
BRADFORD, Pa. — High above the frozen Potomac River in the nation's capitol, Ryan Van Cleave stood on the Arlington Memorial Bridge, contemplating his life. It was New Year's Eve 2007, and the married father of two asked himself, “Is this really …
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Four beds ready to treat Internet addicts
That sentiment could change on Monday, when the country's first inpatient treatment program for Internet addiction opens at Bradford Regional Medical Center in Pennsylvania. "I've been studying Internet addiction since 1994," says Dr. Kimberly Young, …
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Bangor conference sheds light on drug, alcohol addiction treatment differences …
BANGOR, Maine — When it comes to drug and alcohol addiction, there are differences between men and women, and that means treatment programs need to be different, local substance abuse providers learned Friday at a conference about addiction and …
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Pennsylvania hospital to open country's first inpatient treatment program for …
The program was organized by experts in the field and cognitive specialists with backgrounds in treating more familiar addictions like drug and alcohol abuse. "[Internet addiction] is a problem in this country that can be more pervasive than alcoholism …
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Now There's A Hospital-Based Treatment Facility for Internet Addicts
These "digital detox" programs often help patients with therapy and coping mechanisms, but they don't medicate patients or diagnose and treat the underlying problems that often accompany addiction, like depression or anxiety disorders. In that sense …
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'Diversion' Programs Send More to Treatment, Instead of Prison
State authorities have used the programs, known informally as drug courts, since the 1980s. Program participants typically must live on their own and be a full-time worker or student, and they must attend rehab or counseling meetings several times a week.
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Pennsylvania hospital to open country's first inpatient treatment program for …
The program was organized by experts in the field and cognitive specialists with backgrounds in treating more familiar addictions like drug and alcohol abuse. "[Internet addiction] is a problem in this country that can be more pervasive than alcoholism …
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Now There's A Hospital-Based Treatment Facility for Internet Addicts
Young and her colleagues treat Internet addiction like a real physical and mental affliction, on a par with alcoholism and drug abuse, and aim to assist people in recovery as they would with someone struggling with other substances. But is Internet …
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Internet Addiction Gets Its Own Treatment Facility
9) the first inpatient treatment program for Internet addiction will open at Bradford Regional Medical Center in Pennsylvania. … While studies show similar brain activity for Internet addicts as alcohol and drug addicts, there are naysayers to the …
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