I-Team: Lawsuits target Scientology rehab center in Nev.
LAS VEGAS — Several federal lawsuits now target an unlicensed Nevada drug and alcohol rehab center first exposed by the I-Team. Patients and the families say the rehab center isn't curing addictions; it's trying to recruit people into Scientology … Read more on KLAS-TV

For Addicts, There May Be Another Road To Wellness
The Betty Ford Center, an alcohol and drug rehabilitation clinic, is famous for its intensive rehabilitation that takes patients out of their regular lives. New thinking in the medical community, however, advocates treating addiction as a chronic … Read more on WBUR

Rehab business still seeking permit; petitions are running about equal
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Residents oppose planned drug rehab facility
Even then, the foundation was caring for addicts and alcoholics as many of its homeless residents were suffering from those problems, said the Rev. Timothy Kruthaupt … And another, Lorna Vite, owner of Yellow Creek Campground and a former executive … Read more on Indiana Gazette

Age apparently no limit to exemption on 'investigatory' records
7, a drug bust caught up a young, popular Bloomington High School teacher named Chuck Walls and a faculty spouse named Myriam Champigny. She was French, 47 and married to an existential poet and professor at Indiana University. He was in his early … Read more on The Herald-Times (subscription)

Companies saving billions through offshore tax havens, report says
That would equal the entire state budgets of California, Virginia and Indiana combined. Several major … n Pfizer, the world's largest drug and pharmaceutical manufacturer, operated 128 subsidiaries in tax havens that reported $ 69 billion in profits … Read more on Charleston Gazette

A SOBERING STORY: Perceptions on addiction slow to change
All are labels that speak to the stigma surrounding drug and alcohol addiction, which often is a hurdle for people seeking treatment, according to Barb Miklos, an Armstrong-Indiana-Clarion Drug and Alcohol Commission case manager. She also is president … Read more on Indiana Gazette

Hotel founder Chatwal beats drug-trafficking case after a year of rehab
Dream Hotel founder and world-renowned playboy Vikram Chatwal has beaten the rap on his felony drug-trafficking case that could have landed him in a Florida prison for 20 years, sources familiar with the matter told The Post. The 17th Circuit Court in … Read more on New York Post

Former US drug czar talks substance abuse, treatment
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Treatment should follow welfare drug tests
Drug tests for welfare recipients could only work if those who tested positive were funnelled into rehabilitation, the head of one of the Illawarra's leading drug rehabilitation services says. Watershed Drug and Alcohol Recovery and Education Centre … Read more on Illawarra Mercury

Fort Lauderdale Drug and Alcohol Rehab Center Expands Successful Family …
Family Night at Cornerstone Recovery Center in Fort Lauderdale is moving to twice a month starting in June. The next Family Night event will be hosted at Cornerstone's Fort Lauderdale drug and alcohol rehab center from 6:00pm to 7:30 pm on Friday, June … Read more on Busbyway

Question by DWAYNE R C: statistics on inmates leaving prison verses enteringprison in california?

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Answer by Tara M
In the quest for “punishment,” the state of California has given very little effort to try to rehabilitate or educate offenders. Throwing them in prisons and dehumanizing every aspect of their existence leaves little or no sympathy to treating them as humans and trying to help build them into better human beings.
Even if success rates aren’t perfect, there is much evidence that suggests that the successes are worth it. Sixty-five percent of 3-Strikers are in prison because of drug related offenses. Rather than expensive prisons, less expensive rehabilitation programs are worth more for the buck to the taxpayer.
Education is essential for prisoners in our society. Someday, most of them will be out of prison again. In our growing information age, the “haves” and the “have nots” are being separated by education. Recent studies show that educating inmates decreases their recidivism rates.
California has a few education and rehabilitation programs–unfortunately, only a few. If California really wants to do something about crime, they should expand these programs. In addition, other new programs should be attempted and tested.
FACTS has mixed feelings about jobs and labor programs for prisoners. While we encourage the teaching of new skills so prisoners have a better chance for employment when they get on the “outside,” we are concerned that the prison system and society will look at prisoners as cheap labor and therefore abuse prisoners (and even look at increasing our population of prisoners as a good thing). One way of preventing this from happening is to continue to allow prisoners to join the job programs on a truly voluntary basis, maintain safe working conditions, and then to increase their pay. In addition, FACTS encourages programs that are challenging and really give prisoners skills for good jobs on the “outside” (e.g., computer manufacturing).
While there are signals that California politicians may be more willing to put in place rehabiliation and prevention programs, keep an eye on the actual numbers of prisoners affected and also recognize that these programs do nothing for the 3-strikers who have already received unjust sentences. In addition, when the CDC promotes more “rehabilitation facilities,” let’s make sure that the money really is going towards more rehabilitation and not just to an increase in the prison industrial complex.

California spends approximately $ 5.7 billion on its prisons and jails ($ 4.5 billion on youth and adult corrections and $ 1.2 billion on county jails).
Even before the 3-Strikes law, California was already pouring nonviolent offenders and drug offenders in its prisons. The 3-Strikes law became an exclamation point on a bankrupt policy that wants to spend billions on nonviolent and non-serious offenders.
. .But California’s prisons are more crowded today than when the building program began and the Department of Corrections asserts that California must immediately begin another round of prison expansion nearly as large as the one just completed.
Prison officials estimate that within two years the state will run out of space for additional inmates. Without new facilities or another strategy for dealing with felons, the state could easily be required by a federal court to release prisoners before they have served their time. The problem is real. It is upon us now. And it must be solved.
But California’s prisons are more crowded today than when the building program began and the Department of Corrections asserts that California must immediately begin another round of prison expansion nearly as large as the one just completed.

Prison officials estimate that within two years the state will run out of space for additional inmates. Without new facilities or another strategy for dealing with felons, the state could easily be required by a federal court to release prisoners before they have served their time. The problem is real. It is upon us now. And it must be solved.
While more felons are going to prison for a longer time, 90 percent of all prison inmates are eventually returned to our communities – and half of them will be released within two years. Each year, more that 100,000 inmates are released from state custody
More than 80 percent of inmates are addicted to drugs or alcohol. Half of them cannot read at the sixth-grade level. Moreover, the vast majority of inmates do not receive education, work training or drug treatment – even though those services have proven repeatedly to help inmates successfully reintegrate into society and are far cheaper than re-incarcerating inmates.
A full two-thirds of all of the inmates entering state prisons either violated the condition of their parole or committed new crimes while on parole. While some of those parolees committed serious and violent crimes, the vast majority of returning parolees committed low-level property or drug crimes.

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Call for treatment to follow drug tests
Drug tests for welfare recipients could only work if those who tested positive were funnelled into rehabilitation, the head of one of the Illawarra's leading drug rehabilitation services says. Watershed Drug and Alcohol Recovery and Education Centre … Read more on Illawarra Mercury

Selena Gomez Drug and Rehab Rumors After Justin Bieber Break-Up, Nepal …
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Drug rehab centre appeals Yarra Ranges Council decision to reject expansion …
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New grief group for loved ones of those lost to heroin
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Glen Park area residents shoot down addiction rehab facility 0
A plan to build a drug and alcohol addiction rehabilitation centre in southern Leduc County was killed before it even got off the ground. A large group of riled up residents of the Glen Park area of south Leduc County, north and west of Wizard Lake … Read more on Leduc Representative

Ministry aims to help addicts in recovery
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Drug Addiction Treatment Centers Becomes Brainwashing Center
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Question by tdtgh26: does anyone know about a liquid/pill for alcoholics that when taken makes the person sick and not want alcohol

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Answer by Motherload
its called Chaser- get it at Walgreens

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Medications that could help treat alcohol addiction are far under-utilized
In a recent review of literature pertaining to the effectiveness and use of different medications used to treat alcohol addiction, it was revealed that only one out of 10 people being treated are receiving medication as part of their treatment plan … Read more on Daily Digest

Nine-year-old referred for drug or alcohol treatment in West Berkshire
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Crown Casino gave high roller Pete Hoang money, flights, villa and alcohol …
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