Federal rules eased for opioid addiction treatment drug
Washington Federal regulators have relaxed restrictions on physicians prescribing the opioid addiction treatment drug buprenorphine to patients. The rule change offers doctors and opioid treatment programs greater flexibility when dispensing …
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Authorities grapple with substance abuse solutions
Jacksonville has counseling services, a methadone clinic and a crisis center available. However, there is no local inpatient treatment facility for those with substance abuse issues. “We do a lot of recommendations to the Wilmington treatment centers …
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Effective Addiction Treatment
Countless people addicted to drugs, alcohol or both have managed to get clean and stay clean with the help of organizations like Alcoholics Anonymous or the thousands of residential and outpatient clinics devoted to treating addiction. But if you have …
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Study: Substance-abuse treatment still costs patients more
The HCCI expressed concern about the differences given that the 2008 Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act was supposed to eliminate them for substance-abuse treatments. According to the report, substance-abuse admissions rose by about 20 …
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Evidence-Based Addiction Treatments Offer High Probability of Success
11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — "I want people to recover from addiction without the suffering I endured," said Richard Taite , CEO and founder of Cliffside Malibu Treatment Center. "That's why I went to the evidence-base before we opened our doors in 2005.
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Authorities grapple with substance abuse solutions
Jacksonville has counseling services, a methadone clinic and a crisis center available. However, there is no local inpatient treatment facility for those with substance abuse issues. “We do a lot of recommendations to the Wilmington treatment centers …
Read more on Jacksonville Daily News

How Effective Are Addiction Treatment Centers?
Drug addiction being a major crisis in the United States, there has been a sharp rise in the number of the addiction treatment centers. This certainly has helped a lot in battling this dreadful crisis. However, people should also look at it from a …
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Jenelle Evans Checked Into Rehab Again For Alleged Heroin Abuse
But this time, Jenelle is “seeking treatment for her drug addiction issues and related stresses stemming from her tumultuous last few months,” a source close to the MTV star tells RadarOnline.com. “Everyone has been worried about Jenelle doing heroin …
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Women of Hope set free from addiction; Rehab grads find faith, hope in program
Before she came to the center, her drug addiction landed her in jail and a judge ordered her to the Women of Hope Center. She said she did not want to go to the Women of Hope program. “When I found out I had to go to rehab, I felt like my world was …
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Effective Addiction Treatment
Countless people addicted to drugs, alcohol or both have managed to get clean and stay clean with the help of organizations like Alcoholics Anonymous or the thousands of residential and outpatient clinics devoted to treating addiction. But if you have …
Read more on New York Times (blog)

Exploiting addiction
Since 2008, Dr. Drew has glammed up and tarted up B- and Z-list celebs on his hit VH1 show, “Celebrity Rehab” — renamed “Rehab” last fall so as not to exclude folks who've yet to make it big by falling on their faces. He's turned addiction from an …
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Prevention efforts focused on youth reduce prescription abuse into adulthood
All of these interventions addressed general risk and protective factors for substance abuse rather than specifically targeting prescription drug abuse. In follow-up questionnaires and telephone interviews completed at 17-25 years of age, students …
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Federal rules eased for opioid addiction treatment drug
The Health and Human Services secretary “will continue to monitor abuse while applying the specific buprenorphine abuse reduction interventions discussed elsewhere in this notice,” the rule stated. “While cognizant of this abuse, the secretary believes …
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Rez alcohol abuse bill advances
The bill calls for the pilot program fund to draw money from the existing state liquor luxury taxes, a percentage of which are already designated for alcohol and drug addiction treatment and prevention. "What this does is allow them, the cities and …
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Effective Addiction Treatment
Of the 23.5 million teenagers and adults addicted to alcohol or drugs, only about 1 in 10 gets treatment, which too often fails to keep them drug-free. Many of these programs fail to use proven methods to deal with the factors that underlie addiction …
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