Drug addicts: Warning signs and help that's available
Luke Nasta, executive director of Camelot Counseling Service, an inpatient facility in Port Richmond, compared the Island's current heroin epidemic to that of the 1960s and 70s, when opiate addiction ravaged middle class Staten Island. The situation is … Read more on SILive.com

AAC Holdings Acquires One of the Largest Online Publishers of Drug Treatment …
American Addiction Centers is a leading provider of inpatient substance abuse treatment services. We treat adults as well as adolescents who are struggling with drug addiction, alcohol addiction, and co-occurring mental/behavioral health issues. We … Read more on Business Wire (press release)

Workplace Trouble: Survey Reveals Sharp Escalation in Restaurant/Food Service …
Novus Medical Detox Center is a Joint Commission Accredited inpatient medical detox facility that offers safe, effective alcohol and drug treatment programs in a home-like residential setting. Located on 3.25 tree-lined acres in New Port Richey, Fla … Read more on Benzinga

This Heartbreaking Obituary Sends a Powerful Message About Drug Addiction
If you have any loved one's who are fighting addiction, Molly's family asks that you do everything possible to be supportive, and guide them to rehabilitation before it is too late.” She dropped out of community college after a year, and her father Tom … Read more on TIME

Upscale rehab center planned for Abita Springs
They said the parish has the highest prescription rate for anti-addiction medication per capita in Louisiana and one of the highest rates in the country. People at the center won't be on lockdown, and it won't be surrounded by giant walls, but they … Read more on The New Orleans Advocate

Excise, NGOs to work together for rehabilitation of drug addicts: Mujtaba
LAHORE: Provincial Minister for Law, Excise& Taxation and Finance Mujtaba Shuja ur Rehman has said that Excise & Taxation Department, in collaboration with NGOs will rehabilitate the drug addicts and centers will be established at parks, grounds and … Read more on Customs Today Newspaper

Karen Salkin and Choices Recovery Talk About Avoiding Substance Abuse in …
The EcoLuxe Lounge is a gathering of many of the world's top providers of socially conscious and ecologically sound products and services, and Choices Recovery, a leading provider of holistic treatment of addiction, fit in well with the other product … Read more on PR Web (press release)

Puerto Rico exports its drug addicts to Chicago
I checked with Joseph Lokaitis, a public service administrator with DASA, the Division of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse under the Department of Human Services, but he said he had no idea that these unofficial treatment groups existed. “I have not from … Read more on WBEZ

Drug forum speakers lay out facts
Panelists from law enforcement, neighborhood groups, and substance abuse treatment and recovery organizations talked about the current actions being taken to combat the challenges of drug crimes and addiction as well as provided specific actions that … Read more on Huntington Herald Dispatch

Critic Faults Alcoholics Anonymous For Lack Of Evidence
On the dominance of AA and the 12-step approach in the treatment of substance abuse in the United States. There was a book that came out in 2013 called Inside Rehab by Anne Fletcher, and that book found that up to 80 percent of all rehabs rely on AA … Read more on NPR (blog)

Scott Disick Checks Into Rehab: Five-Star Costa Rica Facility Uses …
As Scott Disick checks into rehab into Costa Rica, the long-time boyfriend of Kourtney Kardashian is coming clean about why he's getting help. And Disick is … But Scott headed off to rehab only after a heavy drinking bout during his Atlantic City … Read more on The Inquisitr

Bancroft site should become open space not rehab center
And the latest redevelopment plan – a Pennsylvania businessman's proposal for an addiction-treatment center on the Haddonfield campus – has rocked the borough to its historically prosperous core. A rehab for alcoholics and drug addicts? At a gateway to … Read more on Philly.com

Killing of Pasco police officer cast 'dark cloud' over city 60 years ago
He battled alcoholism, entering rehab twice before getting completely sober in the late '70s. “He really of course regretted things, but he couldn't change it,” she said. “I know if he could have undone his past he would have, naturally. Who wouldn't … Read more on Mid Columbia Tri City Herald

Horizon site tackles opiate addiction among young adults
Last year, the agency added residential treatment beds in Buffalo when it assumed responsibility for the Terrace House facility after the closing of Alcohol & Drug Dependency Services (ADDS). Horizon is working to shed non-core services to concentrate … Read more on Buffalo Business First

Rehabilitation a walk in the park for drug addicts
This means there is only one bed for every 320,000 drug or alcohol addicts in Turkey. The government pledged that 20 more centers will be established by 2017 and clinics will also set up in prisons for rehabilitation of drug users there. Five clinics … Read more on Daily Sabah

Father of NBA player leaves alcohol, prison behind for church and son
In 1999, when Johnny O'Bryant III was 6, his dad went to prison on a forgery charge he attributes to his addiction. He stayed behind bars for 18 months, continuing to drink and use drugs in the eight years that followed his release. To enter a … Read more on The Advocate

Aging Baby Boomers Bring Drug Habits Into Middle Age
“If you have a trigger, and your youth is caught up in that Woodstock mentality, you're going to revert back,” said Jamie Huysman, 60, clinical adviser to the senior program at Caron Treatment Centers, a residential drug treatment organization that … Read more on Wall Street Journal

Ex-Boxing Champ Steps Back Into Spotlight As A Face Of Addiction
But that hasn't stopped him from telling his story or from helping out addicts. At Clinica Bajo del Sol in Tijuana, a rehab center Chavez opened, some 40 men and women say a prayer before dinner. The spectacular view of the Pacific Ocean contrasts with … Read more on WGBH NEWS

Christie could find agreement with rivals over drug abuse
The center, which Oberman estimates is one of perhaps two centers in southern New Jersey, is affected by Atlantic City's broader economic woes and needs an additional $ 6 million appropriation or grant to keep the long-term treatment operation going. Read more on Vineland Daily Journal

Drug addicts struggling to reintegrate after rehab
Official figures estimate that one out of every hundred Chinese is a drug user. In the run-up to the "Two Sessions", CCTV is reporting on different aspects of Chinese society. Reporter Han Peng has spoken with drug addicts at a state-run rehab center … Read more on CCTV