Trenton Health Team awarded .2M to help improve substance abuse treatment
In the Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment program, patients coming in for everything from routine checkups to backaches will be questioned about substance abuse issues, Henry J. Austin Health Center medical director Dr. Kemi Alli said.
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Cory Monteith In Rehab: 'Glee' Star Enters Treatment For Substance Abuse
I was out of control," he told Parade, adding that he had a "serious [drug] problem" at the time and was doing "anything and everything, as much as possible." The actor revealed that it was after his mother and a group of his friends staged an …
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Bloomberg praises city record at drug–abuse summit
Bloomberg told the gathering in Orlando of about 1,000 public health, law enforcement and substance abuse treatment professionals that the city had helped… Content Preview This content is exclusive for Newsday digital access and 7-day home delivery …
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Trenton Health Team awarded .2M to help improve substance abuse treatment
In the Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment program, patients coming in for everything from routine checkups to backaches will be questioned about substance abuse issues, Henry J. Austin Health Center medical director Dr. Kemi Alli said.
Read more on The Times of Trenton – NJ.com

Substance abuse treatment center gets new leadership from Evergreen
Dr. John Patz, a substance use disorder specialist, is splitting his time between practicing primary care in the new Evergreen Primary Care facility in Monroe and the Recovery Center across the street, where he is the new medical director. By June, he …
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Substance Abuse Treatment Center in Delray Beach Announces Outpatient …
New Found Life Substance Abuse Treatment Center in Delray Beach, Florida announces the addition of outpatient substance abuse treatment with support housing for women in addition to new services for the treatment of eating disorders for both women …
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Drug Treatment Center Opens
Funding for the center that opened Tuesday includes $ 500,000 from the Governor's Office of Appalachia and $ 200,000 in federal substance abuse dollars provided by the Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services. The center will also be …
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Question by Amanda: What can Percocet abuse do to your baby during pregnancy?
A girl I know is due in August and has been abusing the pills before she found out and ever since she found out. She has been taking 5-8 a day. The doctor supposedly tells her everything looks/sounds good but I’m doubtful. Could something be wrong with her baby when it’s born? Thanks for any answers. She also has not told her doctor about her substance abuse.
Could the doctor be able to tell anything is wrong through listening to the heart beat? Or any ultrasounds? It’s not fair to make your baby suffer while you get high.

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Answer by ladystang
birth defects up to death

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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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Cory Monteith In Rehab: 'Glee' Star Enters Treatment For Substance Abuse
Robin Williams. The comedian overcame a cocaine addiction, but headed back to rehab after 20 years of sobriety in 2006 to address his issues with alcohol. Fergie. The Black Eyed Peas singer kicked a crystal meth and ecstasy habit. Heath Ledger …
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Alcohol Research Center Battles Addiction with Science
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TreatmentUSA.com Expands Its Referral Services to Assist Families With Finding …
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Fraternities worse than Animal House fail to pay for casualties
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Kennedy Calling For Equal Coverage Of Mental Health — Yes, Still
It came from Benedetto Mitrano, who testified that his drug-addicted son, Michael, had been through several treatment programs, but died in August. “Insurance always refused to pay for one reason or another,” Mitrano said. … Class action lawsuits …
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