Canadian rehab center installs crack pipe vending machine
A drug treatment center in Vancouver, Canada has installed a crack pipe vending machine at its facility — going retail in an effort to reach hardcore addicts and keep them off the streets. The bright, polka-dotted machine dispenses crack pipes like …
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Heroin's Small-Town Toll, and a Mother's Grief
Phil Drewiske, 23, who embraced recovery in prison after five overdoses and a dozen failed treatment programs, said he bore some responsibility for introducing heroin to the town. The son of local … During that period, Ms. Hale was shuttling to …
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Heroin deaths, police seizures and addictions on the rise in Genesee County
And heroin-related admissions at publicly funded treatment centers in the county are at "epidemic" levels. In Genesee County and the state of Michigan, experts say, heroin is second only to alcohol in the number of addicts who report it as their drug …
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Skyrocketing heroin use in Central Oregon
“It's just a matter of time before somebody offers you the heroin or you know where you can get it,” said Barrett Hamilton, a recovery mentor at Best Care Treatment Centers in Redmond. “And even though you may have already said, 'I'll never do heroin …
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Heroin's Small-Town Toll, and a Mother's Grief
But the government would not pay for inpatient treatment, and Ms. Hale, uninsured, could not afford to send her daughter an hour away to Hazelden, one of the best-known rehab programs in the country. Still, after the detox, in early 2013, Ms. Ivy …
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After 75 Years of Alcoholics Anonymous, It's Time to Admit We Have a Problem
… Greatest Tragedy, which includes a chapter aimed at debunking the idea that AA is the only way. The author Anne Fletcher released Inside Rehab: The Surprising Truth About Addiction Treatment and How To Get Help That Works, a deeply reported exposé …
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One snapshot in a tragic national picture: Long Island sees exploding heroin use
Five things you didn't know about heroin. Chris, now 17, is in treatment at Outreach House, a long-term substance abuse program on Long Island, New York, for youths ages 12 to 17. His road to recovery hasn't been a smooth ride, however. After three …
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Long a nexus of Rx drug abuse, Staten Island now faces heroin's scourge
Except as risky as painkillers are to abuse, heroin's an even trickier roll of the dice. "They don't know what they're doing," says Fusco, who runs the Dynamite Youth Center in Brooklyn and its residential treatment center in update Fallsburg New York …
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Does Calling Heroin Addiction A Brain Disease Help Avoid Tragedies Like Philip …
You might surmise that there is a connection between viewing addiction as a brain disease and coming up with an effective treatment for it. But you would be wrong. The dominant model for addiction treatment in the United States is the 12-step approach …
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8 questions about heroin and the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman
Hoffman had said he stayed clean for two decades, but then had a relapse in 2012, and entered a drug-treatment program. 3.) So how prevalent is heroin use, nationwide? It's still lower than the use of other illegal drugs, which is good news. But the …
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Schneiderman applauds success of New York's program to prevent prescription …
"Ending the epidemic of prescription drug abuse that plagues too many New York communities has been a top priority of mine since my first day in office, which is why I proposed and helped pass the law that created New York's historic I-STOP program," …
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Warren gets 5000 federal substance abuse prevention grant
“We have many of the same problems of substance abuse with our youth here in Warren County as one might find in a big city or urban area,” added MaryJo Harris, Project Coordinator for the Drug-Free Communities Support Program grant. “It's easy to say …
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High-End Red Hook Rehab Center to Offer Free Drug Screening for Locals
Sorensen and Michael Mosberg, the team behind Urban Recovery House, met with a small group of residents Wednesday night to discuss their center's work and future Red Hook location. The boutique 30-bed inpatient facility, in a 20,000-square-foot …
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His Death, Their Lives
As Jim tells it, his relapse lasted four years, and required four months of rehab, including an extended stay at the Betty Ford Center. He remains mystified by the fact that he didn't die; that he was able to make it back to Alcoholics Anonymous when …
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