Best Drug Rehabilitation Donates 00 to Support Arthur Leslow Community …
Led by CEO Per Wickstrom, Best Drug Rehabilitation also understands that recovering from an addiction is an intense emotional and physical challenge, and as such provides clients with a comfortable and private space that is safe and free of anxiety. Read more on DigitalJournal.com

Free picnic for those in recovery from drugs, alcohol is Saturday
The Alumni Group of the WYGC Hillside Recovery Program is for those who have successfully completed addiction treatment through WYGC; have achieved balance in life; have the readiness and capacity to give back; and have the willingness to share their … Read more on Prescott Daily Courier

Summer jobs program is a winner
It's a win-win when high school students in recovery mentor their peers with severe special needs, say teachers involved with a unique summer jobs project at the Northshore Education Consortium. The program has brought out the best in both groups of … Read more on Wicked Local Beverly

Treatment center planned for BHC
Treatment referrals for the residential substance abuse center will be through Mohave County Mental Health Clinic or through Southwest Behavioral Health Services. The planned 10-bed adult facility will provide a clinician and case manager for each … Read more on Mohave Valley News

S. Ogden neighbors line up to oppose drug rehab center
… surrounding the gated property at 6000 S. 1075 East came out in force Thursday night to let South Ogden planning commissioners know that they object to the recent buyer's plans to convert existing buildings into a residential addiction treatment … Read more on Standard-Examiner

ACLU Seeks To Challenge Law Targeting Pregnant Drug Addicts
Opponents of the bill say it actually deters women from seeking medical care and does nothing to help drug addicts access treatment. The two residential drug treatment facilities in Tennessee where women don't have to give up their children to enroll … Read more on Huffington Post

Foster, Maloney Introduce Legislation To Combat Heroin Abuse, Increase …
This legislation removes barriers to addiction treatment by providing grants for residential/in-patient opioid addiction treatment for qualified individuals. For an individual to qualify, they must either lack health insurance or have health insurance … Read more on Insurance News Net

Hope By Song turns pain into musical therapy
Fort Myers couple Mellissa Shiflett and Will Soto both submitted writings to Hope By Song, including poems and other things they'd written as part of their addiction-recovery treatment. They're both recovering drug addicts. Then Metts, Hannam and other … Read more on The News-Press

'Dharma Punx' author Noah Levine offers a Buddhist approach to addiction …
His latest book, "Refuge Recovery," takes on the topic of addiction, as a kind of guide book for an effective addiction treatment program based on fundamental Buddhist practices and precepts. He comes to Bookshop Santa Cruz on Monday. Levine offers the … Read more on Monterey County Herald

Governor Patrick Announces Opioid Task Force
Gov. Deval Patrick announced a series of actions to address the opioid addiction epidemic in Massachusetts that will strengthen the state's ability to respond to the opioid crisis with a focus on prevention, intervention, treatment and recovery. Over … Read more on Chelsea Record

New outpatient drug treatment center opens in Austin
Anschutz has worked in the mental health and substance abuse industry in Austin for a decade. She saw a need for an outpatient treatment center in Austin and created the Sage Recovery and Wellness Center. It provides the extra support and services for … Read more on KVUE

Sheriff's office eyed as million drug treatment center
In addition, the move would allow McKinley Hall, a drug addiction treatment and rehabilitation facility in Springfield, to establish Clark County's only women's residential drug treatment center. It would also result in the sheriff's detectives and … Read more on Springfield News Sun

A vision for family-centric addict rehab
She wanted to know whether the brand-new alcoholism and addiction treatment center in rural Cumberland County, N.J., could help her husband. Seabrook cofounder Margaret "Peg" Diehl gave the visitor the answer she'd learned by heart in the 1960s, … Read more on Philly.com

Dallas Drug Treatment Centers Invites New Patients to Seek Alcohol and Drug …
Very few offered long-term, residential alcohol rehab treatment services. Medicaid, for various reasons, was unable in the past to provide treatment for drug addiction. Thankfully, this is no longer the case and people living in Dallas can now receive … Read more on PRunderground

Liquor license, opioid bills pass Mass. Legislature
That bill would require coverage for at least 14 days of inpatient detoxification and post-detox care, prohibit insurers from determining whether any addiction treatment — inpatient or outpatient — is medically necessary, and would remove a … Read more on Boston Globe

Suspect lodged on suspicion of drug abuse
A Dayton-area man was arrested Friday morning after members of his family contacted deputies of the Logan County Sheriff's Office and expressed concern over his behavior. Shaun M. Wasmuth, 33, at-large, was charged with abusing harmful intoxicants and … Read more on Bellefontaine Examiner

Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014: Substance abuse treatment, retirement insecurity …
Jackie Farwell's July 26 BDN article about the drug abuse epidemic is a factual account of a, so far, less-than-perfect system for monitoring abuse of prescription medications. The imperfections — exclusion of the large VA system source of medications … Read more on Bangor Daily News

Albany County Crackdown On Substance Abuse
The Albany County Sheriff's Office says it has made its largest heroin bust ever, arresting alleged high-ranking members of a ring that delivered the drug to users in taxis and stationed dealers in local shopping malls. Sheriff Craig Apple says a … Read more on WAMC

Some believe addiction treatment facility needed in Faulkner County
While the Faulkner County area has a few services in place to help addicted people who want to get better, some with expertise on the subject believe Conway is overdue for a state-funded drug and alcohol treatment center. Faulkner County Sheriff Andy … Read more on Log Cabin Democrat

Officials place 50 in protective custody, treat 46 for alcohol-related …
MANSFIELD — Officials placed more than 50 people in protective custody, made several alcohol-related arrests and treated 46 people for alcohol-related illnesses during Saturday night's Keith Urban concert at the Xfinity Center. In a joint press … Read more on Attleboro Sun Chronicle

Colorado ranks No. 3 for alcohol deaths
… third in the nation for alcohol-related deaths among working-age adults from 2006 to 2010, according to a national study released in June. On a local level, health professionals say alcohol abuse is a leading diagnosis at behavioral health … Read more on Cortez Journal

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