Freedom Treatment Center Offers New Aftercare in Addiction Treatment
Freedom Treatment Center is a Southern Michigan drug and alcohol addiction recovery facility with personalized programs to help people achieve and maintain sobriety. Freedom Treatment Center knows a crucial point for those in recovery is what happens …
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SoCal CEO Says He Was Fired for not Being Gay
SAN DIEGO (CN) – Stepping Stone, a San Diego rehab center, fired its CEO because he isn't gay, the man claims in court. John de Miranda sued Stepping Stone of San Diego and seven members of its board of directors in Superior Court. "Stepping Stone's …
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Crews, Olin families persevering 20 years later
Alexa Olin, napping with her father, has a psychology degree from the University of Portland and works at a drug and alcohol rehab center for teenagers. (Olin family). Patti Olin-Winter, as she is now known, no longer enjoys the perks and endures the …
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Lindsay Lohan's Locked-Down Rehab: Will It Work?
… Girls star, who was ordered to the Betty Ford Center at the end of 2010. The stint at the clinic – her fifth stint in rehab overall – was troublesome, leading to a police investigation over assault of an employee and being accused of sneaking out …
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Reformed drug addict returns to Phillipsburg to sing praises of recovery program
After treatment, finding support is crucial, according to Michael Krim, manager of the Bethlehem Recovery Center in Bethlehem. The center is a volunteer-run, peer-support center that hosts a number of 12-step programs for recovering addicts. The center …
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Delray Recovery Center Offers New Existential Therapy Program for Addiction …
Delray Recovery Center is a Florida treatment facility that offers a variety of treatment methods for drug and alcohol addiction, eating disorders and co-occurring disorders inclusive of depression, anxiety and bipolar disorder. The center has …
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Why is B.C.'s addiction treatment so skewed?
… taxpayer-funded authorities so focused on harm-reduction methods (including providing free needles, crack kits and hash pipes) that they reject funding for abstinence-based recovery programs, denying addicts a scientifically-supported treatment option?
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Christopher Kennedy Lawford on addiction, recovery
In his newest book, RECOVER TO LIVE: KICK ANY HABIT, MANAGE ANY ADDICTION, Christopher gathers the world's experts in a number of addiction fields, including alcohol, drugs, eating disorders and hoarding. The book is complete with state-by-state …
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Why is B.C.'s addiction treatment so skewed?
The MLA committee learned residential treatment beds funded by health authorities were almost exclusively for harm-reduction patients taking methadone, a controversial substitute for heroin and other opiates. In fact, the government was spending more …
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Addiction recovery participants 'on the right track'
After kicking off last month, Amarillo Recovery from Alcohol and Drugs' intensive outpatient drug and alcohol treatment program geared toward homeless shelter residents has brought its first clients through the initial three weeks of its 30-day program.
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Fundraiser benefits drug rehab center, domestic violence shelter
Walnut Elementary School's cafetorium was transformed into a super crop to raise money for women escaping abuse and seeking drug addiction treatment. The seventh annual crop, which ran from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m., was staged by group of about 22 women …
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New Found Life Substance Abuse Treatment Center of Delray Beach, Florida …
Ms. Amico has dedicated her life to helping families navigate successfully through mental health challenges, chemical addictions and eating disorders including bulimia and anorexia. New Found Life Substance Abuse Treatment Center of Delray Beach, …
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UN Report Slams Cruel Drug Treatment as "Torture"
Authored by Special Rapporteur Juan Mendez, the report takes special aim at forced “rehabilitation centers” for drug users. Such centers are typically found in Southeast Asian states, such as Vietnam and Thailand, as well as in some countries in the …
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New high finance
A wave of drug abuse has rocked Wall Street hard — and it's pushing record numbers of strung-out bankers, traders and other hotshot financial workers to seek treatment, a Post investigation reveals. … from the 'Mad Men' era has turned into the two …
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Gulf Coast Drug Rehab Sees Success with Long Term Addiction Treatment …
Gulf Coast's approach to drug rehabilitation has, thus far, proven quite successful among the most difficult of patients. According to co-founder Debbie Ross, "We want to allow program participants to focus solely on recovery. We know that when …
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Man jailed over 41kg marijuana find
"The potential for commerciality was there but it was actually for his own long-term addiction," he said. Judge Clive Wall QC accepted Fry was remorseful and had been undergoing drug rehabilitation however he remained concerned about the large cannabis …
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Sen. Mark Kirk talks about guns, Hadiya Pendleton and being 'the good guy in …
Kirk had suffered a major stroke one year earlier and underwent extensive rehabilitation, including having to learn how to walk again. He had been on … A Republican with long-held moderate stances on gun control, Kirk has ended up helping broker what …
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Delray Recovery Center Now Offers 12-Step Addiction Treatment Services
Delray Recovery Center is a Florida treatment facility that offers alcohol and drug addiction programs, as well as help for eating disorders and co-occurring disorders that include depression, anxiety and bipolar disorder. Delray Recovery Center has …
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Maine program to help children of drug addicts seeks to change culture
The partnership, which includes 34 child welfare organizations, including the Maine Department of Health and Human Services, social service agencies, court officials, health care organizations, substance abuse treatment centers, public health groups, …
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Delray Recovery Center Now Offers Intervention Services for Drug Addiction
While effective treatment programs eventually need the willingness of the participants to work, getting a person into treatment in the first place may require outside intervention. Delray Recovery Center's new intervention services for drug addiction …
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