Millennium Treatment Group Offers Tips on Staying Sober During the Holidays
Millennium Treatment Group is a drug addiction and alcohol detox treatment facility located near Lantana, FL. At Millennium Treatment Group, they take special pride in their facilities. They also take great care to ensure that the environment they … Read more on PR Web (press release)

Destination Hope Drug Rehab in Florida Highlights Veterans and Dual …
In May, we observe Mental Health Awareness Month, and Destination Hope alcohol and drug rehab in Florida stresses the importance of remembering our military in those discussions. The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) estimates that about 30% of … Read more on PR Web (press release)

Luxury drug–rehab center in Umatilla to offer recovery in style
Troubled celebs struggling to overcome addictions might start pointing their limos in an unlikely direction: the remote Lake County town of Umatilla. The former Florida Elks Children's Hospital in Umatilla is being reborn as a luxury drug-rehab center … Read more on Orlando Sentinel

Butler County looks at new ways to bridge gaps in mental health care
SIM is “an intervention that provides an opportunity for communities to visualize how mental health, substance abuse, developmental disability, and criminal justice systems intersect in serving criminal justice-involved clients with mental illness and … Read more on Hamilton Journal News (subscription)

Volunteers spend Christmas helping others in St. Louis area
Some spent time at the St. Louis Crisis Nursery, which provides emergency intervention for troubled families. Others packed … Studdard says treatment she has received both in and outside of prison has helped her overcome her drug addiction. She now … Read more on STLtoday.com

Families of addicts were deceived about Goshen's New Day Home treatment …
… balanced residential treatment program focused on giving the addicted individual time and resources to help them stay free of substance abuse,” and lists services including detoxification programs, drug addiction counseling, psychological services … Read more on The Elkhart Truth

Affordable Care Act and addiction
Routine physicals may soon include questions about frequency or extent of drug and alcohol use. As a result, conditions considered less than severe addiction may be identified and treated with a variety of approaches, some currently in use, some not … Read more on Dodge City Daily Globe

Addiction Psychiatry: Clinical Insights
One of the highlights of the conference was an excellent symposium on “Pharmacogenetically Driven Treatment for Drug and Alcohol Dependencies” by luminaries in the addiction psychiatry field, including Henry Kranzler, MD, Thomas Kosten, MD, and Dave … Read more on Psychiatric Times

Need for elderly addiction treatment rises
NEW YORK – A surge in baby boomers has driven up the number of elderly people abusing drugs or alcohol, bringing more attention to the sometimes-delicate problems involved in treating addiction in the aging. Last summer, the Jewish Home Lifecare … Read more on Ithaca Journal

COLUMN: The less God, the more troubles this Christmas season and all year long
Since removing official school prayer in 1962, criminal arrests, teen suicides, illegal drug activity, child abuse cases and divorce have all increased exponentially according to statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau, the National Center for Health … Read more on Shelby Township Source Newspapers

'Teen Mom' Amber Portwood Loses Dad to Illness, Thanks Fans for Prayers and …
Amber hasn't always been close to her father, but once she began turning her life around by entering jail and receiving treatment for her drug addiction and anger issue things began to change. After she was released from prison, Amber was surprised by … Read more on Christian Post

Fact vs. fiction
In similar incendiary fashion, last year, professor Richard Dawkins, author of "The God Delusion," said that teaching religious texts as fact to children is more harmful than sex abuse. But this study proves … Not only is there benefit in allowing … Read more on Alexandria Town Talk

Group offers to help Fairfield cope with student's death
The teens there talk about a variety of problems ranging from drug use to bullying. Proffitt has scheduled a meeting with Fairfield spokeswoman … Our prayers are definitely with them,” Shorter said. “I lost both my parents this year, and I found it … Read more on Hamilton Journal News (subscription)

Efforts to wipe out drug addiction in Ho Chi Minh City
Addicts may lose control without drugs during the first days in rehab centers, Le Ba Hoang, director of the Binh Trieu rehab center, said. It is planned that district-level courts in Ho Chi Minh City will have their first meetings early next month … Read more on Tuoitrenews

Thailand Highest in ASEAN for Drug Addiction
The justice minister, who expressed his concern that many users resort to drug abuse once again after returning from rehabilitation centers to their old environment, also called for a regrouping of diverse anti-drug laws under a single piece of … Read more on Chiang Rai Times

Drug detoxification resumes in Ho Chi Minh City after one year suspension
Drug addiction has never paused, but rehabilitation centers in Ho Chi Minh City were closed down for around a year due to accusations of human rights violations. But the centers have resumed working in the past three days after the passage of a … Read more on Tuoitrenews

Answers to addiction: Program uses questions to help find a solution
The majority of Walton's clients come to Recovery Cafe because a judge has ordered them to get treatment for drug or alcohol problems. “The court system doesn't necessarily emphasize personal choice,” Walton says. It is a mistake to think that … Read more on Rome News-Tribune

Court records show efforts to help James Musante get treatment for drug …
While Musante's mother has said she believes her son, who had struggled with drug addiction, fell through the cracks of the judicial system, his court records suggest that the system was responsive in attempts to get him treatment. His family believes … Read more on GazetteNET

Opiates match alcohol in Ohio treatment centers
The Paint Valley Alcohol, Drug Addiction, and Mental Health Board, which serves five southern Ohio counties, reported more than 1,600 people — 77 percent of the total served — were diagnosed with opiate addiction. In Fairfield County, clients … Read more on Cincinnati.com

Addicted to games: What is a gambling addiction?
Gambling addictions often co-occur with other mental health challenges, such as anxiety, depression and substance abuse, Richman added. That can cause an individual to become dysfunctional. Lately, Edgar said that counselors with the council have found … Read more on The News Journal