The Living Breath Project Launches With Revolutionary Drug–Addiction Treatment
"Traditional drug-rehabilitation programs have an 81% failure rate because they don't address the underlying cause of addiction," said Genie O'Malley, founder and CEO of the Living Breath Project. "Our program cleanses the trauma of addiction and …
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Brooke Mueller lost sons due to prescription drug addiction
According to an article published May 6 on USA Today, Mueller is hospitalized at UCLA Medical Center for treatment of her addiction to prescription drugs. After her release, she will most likely enter a drug rehabilitation program. What will happen …
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Uphill battle for the uninsured and addicted; limited options for those who …
Carrier offers a six- to eight-week intensive outpatient treatment program for those struggling with alcohol and drug addiction who have gone through detoxification. The program requires attendance three nights each week for three hours spent in …
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Editorial: Addiction overhaul
But one huge barrier to treatment, a lack of health insurance, will begin to crumble in less than a year when 3 million to 5 million people with drug and alcohol problems will suddenly become eligible for insurance coverage under the new health care …
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CDC: The Top 10 Things You Should Know About Prescription Drug Abuse
"We can stop this epidemic," Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said during the second National Rx Drug Abuse Summit in early April. "We have the tools, but we need everyone working together in an …
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DEA: Public response to National Prescription Take-Back Day keeps growing
According to the 2011 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), twice as many Americans regularly abused prescription drugs than the number of those who regularly used cocaine, …
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Bay area takes part in National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day on Saturday
Tampa, Florida — Many counties are taking part in National Drug-Take Back Day on Saturday, April 27. The event gives the public the opportunity to prevent prescription drug abuse and theft by safely disposing of potentially dangerous expired, unused …
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Drug Court sending addicts to jail after detox centres reach capacity
All emergency medical detox centers are full nationwide – the Himmafushi Island, Villingili Island, Fuvamulah and Addu, National Drug Agency (NDA) Chairperson and State Health Minister Lubna Mohamed Zahir Hussain confirmed to Minivan News today …
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Alarming Number of Teens Abusing Prescription Drugs—Novus Detox Says …
The numbers of teens taking prescription drugs has exploded, with ten times more adolescents using prescription drugs than in the 1960's (2). Novus Medical Detox Center, one of the only Florida-based detox centers helping high-dosage prescription drug …
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Hospital considers detox program
Logansport Memorial Hospital is considering a three-day detox program for patients trying to break alcohol and drug addictions. CEO Dave Ameen said the hospital is working with a company to implement a program designed to help people after they quit …
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Top 10 Things CDC Says You Should Know
Linebacker Austin Box of the Oklahoma Sooners takes a break during a game in 2010. Box died of an accidental prescription drug overdose the following year. Austin Box "gutted through" pain. Even after a bad blow to his back that ruptured a disc, the …
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Which Prescription Drugs Do Americans Abuse Most?
According to a 2010 study by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, approximately 7 million people in the United States — or 2.7 percent of the population — annually abuse prescription drugs. This abuse primarily occurs when people take medication not …
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Silver: Assembly Ethics Committee could decide Katz's post on Drug Abuse …
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan, said today that he would leave it to the Assembly Ethics Committee to decide whether Assemblyman Steve Katz should remain on the chamber's Committee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse. katz3 Katz …
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