Is substance abuse coverage as equal as required?
Insurance plans that cover substance abuse treatment must provide the same level of care and cost sharing as they do for other medical issues, but treatment centers say disagreement over what this means leaves many alcoholics and drug addicts without …
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California Non 12-Step Addiction Treatment Centers Awarded CARF Accreditation
Watsonville, California – In March 2014, the Redwood Cliffs alcohol and drug treatment facility (utilizing the Narconon drug rehabilitation method) was very pleased and proud to announce the achievement of three-year accreditation from CARF …
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New proton gun cancer treatment center opens
At the center, patients will undergo radiation treatments in which pencil-sized proton beams are used to attack tumors more precisely than other methods can, officials said, noting the goal is to prevent damage to healthy tissue around the tumors. The …
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The Holistic Sanctuary Stakes a Claim As the Most Successful Addiction …
There are many addiction recovery treatment centers throughout the United States, and indeed the world. The one common denominator between the vast majority of these drug treatment centers is that they rely on prescribed medications to control the …
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Officials: Time for a Bennington drug treatment center or methadone clinic
Kristyn Harrington, assistant principal and school-based clinician at Mount Anthony Union High School, speaks on the panel, during a discussion held on Friday at the Bennington Fire Facility to discuss the heroin problem in Bennington. (Holly …
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A. Richard Grossman dies at 81; surgeon founded burn-treatment center
Jonathan Simons, a psychologist who has counseled many of the center's patients, told the Daily News of Los Angeles in 2001 that Grossman "could write a book on bedside manner." "Grossman approaches his work as his destiny, and the feeling is …
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Los Angeles Addiction Treatment Center Welcomes Ken Paves Salon
Anna Manessiotis, celebrity stylist at Ken Paves Salon in West Hollywood, joins The Lakehouse Recovery Center this week, donating her services to the center's residents. The Lakehouse hopes to continue hosting stylists from the well-known salon …
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Cancer center joins trial network
By Beth Christian Broschart – Staff Writer , The Inter-Mountain … ELKINS – The Cancer Care Center of Davis Medical Center is joining a statewide cancer clinical trials network in order to keep cancer patients closer to home when receiving treatment.
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Saeed Abedini, US pastor held in Iran, denied treatment after prison beating
Abedini, who has served just one year of an eight-year sentence meted out to him for allegedly evangelizing in his homeland, was taken to the hospital a little over a week ago, according to the American Center for Law and Justice, the attorneys …
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Faith vs. civil rights? Sex, gender, and the familiar fight over religious …
So says Professor Katherine Franke, director of the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School and one of the driving forces behind the school's Public Rights/Private Conscience Project, a new initiative that seeks to shift the way …
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