Drug clinic offers employees high life with million in shady spending
The audit knocked the state Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services for ineffective monitoring of how the treatment center — Samaritan Village — spends its money. The agency “needs to improve its oversight of how contractors are using …
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Alcoholics Brew Their Own Beer And Wine At the Portland Hotel Society's …
"It's consistent with a range of harm reduction programs that are currently happening in Canada for this population who have usually failed at traditional abstinence treatment over and over again, present huge problems in emergency departments, for …
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Senate bill aims to expand drug-abuse treatment
A little-publicized bill now in the state Senate's insurance committee would drastically expand treatment options for heroin and opioid pill addicts — and potentially reshape the landscape of drug rehabilitation in New York, experts say. Senate Bill …
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Addictions Specialist Joins Promises Treatment Centers as Director of Young …
Ms. Ogle has more than 25 years of clinical experience working with children, adolescents and adults in addiction, trauma and co-occurring mental health disorders in both a treatment center environment as well as in private practice. She is a licensed …
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Chris Brown completes 90 days at Malibu rehab center, judge thinks he needs …
A judge thinks Chris Brown still has more work to do in anger management rehab and has ordered him to extend his stay past 90 days. The “Fine China” singer already completed his court-ordered 90-day live-in stay at the facility in Malibu, Calif. TMZ …
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Chris Brown ordered back to rehab for two months
Chris Brown is going back to rehab. At a hearing on Friday, Los Angeles judge ordered the singer to spend another two months in the Malibu rehabilitation center where he has been grappling with anger management and drug abuse problems. RELATED: …
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Too Late For Malibu Rehab To Join Sly Stone Suit, Judge Says
Law360, Los Angeles (February 04, 2014, 9:22 PM ET) — A California judge ruled Tuesday that the Malibu Beach Recovery Center cannot intervene in Sly Stone's stolen royalties lawsuit against his ex-manager to make sure any damages Stone recovers are …
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Former baseball star Strawberry looks to open drug and alcohol treatment …
ST. LOUIS — A Florida health care company wants to open a St. Louis County substance abuse rehabilitation center named for former Major League Baseball star Darryl Strawberry. The 51-year-old Strawberry played for the New York Mets and New York …
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Selena Gomez checked into rehab center
Later that night Gomez was photographed having dinner with longtime pal, Demi Lovato, who spent time in rehab herself for drug and alcohol addiction. An insider told the Daily News that Gomez "has been working nonstop for years. She truly needed to …
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Addicted to Drugs on Staten Island
Across the country, one of the most significant social shifts of the 21st century has been the migration of drug use from centers of urban poverty to places that are suburban, white and middle- or marginally middle-class. … Jacqueline Fiore, the …
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Heroin addicts who want help face insurance denials
"A lot of these heroin users now have families, and the insurers aren't looking at them the same way as someone who's homeless or living in a drug house," said Robert Lebman, president of Huther Doyle, an addiction treatment center in Rochester.
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