Benefits of intensive outpatient treatment for addiction
Many people overcome their addiction through outpatient treatment if they are willing to follow the recommendations which will put them on the path to recovery. Because of the ability to go home after a daily or evening program, patients are able to …
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Change coming to FD YWCA
An outpatient treatment program, which will be open to men as well as women, will be offered through a YWCA Center for Outpatient Empowerment at 7 N. 12th St. The outpatient center … She said the YWCA will provide a full spectrum of addiction treatment.
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Analenisgi offers substance abuse treatment program
Analenisgi Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services offers outpatient substance abuse services through its substance abuse treatment program (SAT). SAT takes place on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 9am – 12pm. The SAT program is for …
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Report: Yorktown Substance Abuse Center Employee Used State Money to Buy …
The Phoenix Houses of New York, Inc. is a nonprofit drug and alcohol rehabilitation organization with 150 programs in 10 states, according to its website. When members of the Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS) questioned the …
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Alcohol Research Center Battles Addiction with Science
The University of Connecticut Alcohol Research Center achieved a milestone recently when the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism renewed the center's funding for another five years. Founded in 1978, the …
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Center to offer assistance for those recovering from drug, alcohol abuse
The threat of abuse of alcohol on college campuses is a very real one. UTD stepped up to tackle this problem when a UT System Regent, the UT Center for Students in Recovery director and a UTD student came together to pitch an idea to the Student Fee …
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A New Treatment for Alcohol Dependence: Nalmefene
The harmful use of alcohol is a global concern, compromising individual and social development and causing 2.5 million deaths a year. It also causes damage far beyond the physical and psychological health of the drinker, destroying the well-being and …
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Thousands of Michigan residents to receive drug, alcohol addiction treatment …
LANSING, Michigan — Michigan health officials say they believe the state's substance abuse care system can handle the surge of people who will become eligible for treatment when the new federal health insurance system goes into effect next January.
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Passages Malibu Reaffirms Its Unshakable Commitment to Total Client Privacy
The Passages Malibu Addiction Treatment Center was recently named the “Number 1 Treatment Center in the World” by Healthcare Global magazine and “One of The Most Luxurious Places to Dry Out by Forbes magazine. Both Passages Malibu and …
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Malibu rehab centers remain cause for concern
The treatment topic came up at Monday's City Council meeting after Sycamore Park resident Rey Cano said he experienced a strange and worrisome encounter with a patient from the Passages Malibu treatment center last week. "A naked man was shuffling …
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Passages Malibu Applauds Addiction Specialist's Support of Yoga in Treatment
The benefits of yoga have long been heralded by alternative treatment professionals and now, more than ever, mainstream medical practitioners are embracing the practice as a means to promote rehabilitation from physical injuries and substance abuse …
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Question by Popcorn: How to work with drug addicts?
I thought of working with drug addicts today, like how would I get to that position? What sort of jobs are available in rehab centers and drug treatment centers? What type of degrees would I need to get?

Best answer:

Answer by ThirtyEightSnub
Education Requirements for a job as a substance abuse counselor depend on the hiring agency. Some counselors have a high school diploma and
certification while others have a bachelor’s degree or
master’s degree. Since some of the best substance
abuse counselors are those who have overcome addiction themselves, this is one of the few jobs
where a degree from the school of hard knocks can
outweigh university schooling. Counselors with more
education will be trusted with less immediate
supervision and licensed counselors can provide
one-on-one counseling.

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Question by Maryy: What percent of rehabilitated people actually are cured?
ok so this is for a project….
does anyone know what percent of rehabilitated people get out and dont do the same mistake agian??? (i.e.- they would use drugs daily, went to rehab, then when they got out they quit completly)
i searched yahoo, google, and ask jeeves. i did all of my project and this is just a small part of it wich isnt really gonna be graded so keep your useless coments to yourself

Best answer:

Answer by raysny
Rehabs often claim amazing results, but the reality is less than spectacular.

According to Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_addiction
“The effectiveness of alcoholism treatments varies widely. When considering the effectiveness of treatment options, one must consider the success rate based on those who enter a program, not just those who complete it. Since completion of a program is the qualification for success, success among those who complete a program is generally near 100%. It is also important to consider not just the rate of those reaching treatment goals but the rate of those relapsing. Results should also be compared to the roughly 5% rate at which people will quit on their own. A year after completing a rehab program, about a third of alcoholics are sober, an additional 40 percent are substantially improved but still drink heavily on occasion, and a quarter have completely relapsed.”

That estimate is based on information from Dr. Mark Willenbring of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and in my opinion, optomistic.

” About 80 percent of addiction patients will relapse, studies suggest, and long-term success rates for treatment are estimated at 10-30 percent.
“The therapeutic community claims a 30 percent success rate, but they only count people who complete the program,” noted Joseph A. Califano Jr., of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. “Seventy to eighty percent drop out in three to six months.” ”
http://www.addictioninfo.org/articles/1633/1/Little-Evidence-that-Costly-Treatment-Programs-Work/Page1.html

90-95% of rehabs in the US are 12step-based. The rest are Scientology or religion-based.

The 12step treatment method has been shown to have about a 5% success rate, the same as no treatment at all:

Although the success rate is the same, AA harms more people than no treatment:
1) Dr. Brandsma found that A.A. increased the rate of binge drinking, and
2) Dr. Ditman found that A.A. increased the rate of rearrests for public drunkenness, and
3) Dr. Walsh found that “free A.A.” made later hospitalization more expensive, and
4) Doctors Orford and Edwards found that having a doctor talk to the patient for just one hour was just as effective as a whole year of A.A.-based treatment.
5) Dr. George E. Vaillant, the A.A. Trustee, found that A.A. treatment was completely ineffective, and raised the death rate in alcoholics. No other way of treating alcoholics produced such a high death rate as did Alcoholics Anonymous.
http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-letters85.html

1) http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-effectiveness.html#Brandsma
2) http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-effectiveness.html#Ditman
3) http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-effectiveness.html#Walsh
4) http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-effectiveness.html#Orford
5) http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-effectiveness.html#Vaillant

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