Punk Rock Pastor Joe Furey's Life of Addiction, Loss and Recovery Makes Him …
It's a simple place run by a humble, charismatic pastor who can look into the eyes of a coke addict, a thief, a workaholic, and not only see a lost soul, but a bit of himself as well. Furey's history of drug abuse, addiction, loss and recovery is … Read more on OC Weekly

Firms face up to staff with alcohol and substance abuse problems
London businesses are facing significant challenges in managing staff with alcohol and substance abuse problems, warns GQ Employment Law, a specialist London employment law firm. GQ Employment Law says that the problem is increasingly being … Read more on Here Is The City

The War Within: Portraits of Vietnam Veterans Fighting Heroin Addiction
Caption from LIFE. "The tears that rolled down Chad Harris's cheeks were partly a symptom of withdrawal: he hadn't had a fix in 14 hours. But he was also crying out of fear that he wouldn't be accepted into the drug treatment program at California's … Read more on TIME

Why Is Heroin Abuse Rising While Other Drug Abuse Is Falling?
Peter Shumlin, Democratic governor of Vermont, moved heroin addiction to the front burner of national news by devoting his entire State of the State address last week to his state's dramatic increase in heroin abuse. Shumlin described the situation as … Read more on Forbes

Valium Addiction and Valium Abuse

Boyd gets funds for teen drug treatment center
ASHLAND — A half million dollars for a residential drug treatment center for teenagers in Boyd County is part of $ 32 million in funding for drug treatment programs across Kentucky announced Monday by Attorney General Jack Conway. The allocation is … Read more on The Independent

Cancer Treatment Centers of America Wins Award
Cancer Treatment Centers of America has been recognized with the Clinical Nutrition Team of Distinction Award by the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition. The award is presented to multi-disciplinary teams that exemplify excellence in … Read more on GPB (blog)

Cancer Treatment Centers of America recognized with Clinical Nutrition Team of …
Cancer Treatment Centers of America® (CTCA) has been recognized by the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (A.S.P.E.N.) with the organization's "Clinical Nutrition Team of Distinction Award". Members of the CTCA professional staff … Read more on News-Medical.net

Demi Lovato Drug Rehab Update: Neon Lights Singer Was Doing Coke Every …
Hope you are ready to hear some mind-blowing confessions from Demi Lovato. She has shared her struggles with eating disorders but her alleged drug and alcohol use has always been up in the air. Demi's reps never wanted her to talk about her drug … Read more on Latin Post

Woman who convinced a community she had cancer to pay for heroin pleads guilty
Prosecutors pushed for a hefty jail sentence in connection to charges of grand larceny, forgery and others, but the judge agreed to place her in a drug treatment program for up to two years instead. According to the Suffolk County District Attorney … Read more on New York’s PIX11 / WPIX-TV

Woman to Know: Sandy Jeffers helps others recover
"I concluded at that time that treatment didn't work for me, the 12 steps didn't work for me, and I was doomed to die from alcoholism at 25 years old," she said. Today, Jeffers, 52, is executive director of Pathway to Recovery, a housing and support … Read more on Indianapolis Star

County Considers Expanding Drug Treatment Programs
Santa Clara County needs more drug rehab housing for convicts slated for release under the state's 2011 prison reform measure. In September, a Superior Court judge told the county it has to expand residential treatment centers to accommodate defendants … Read more on San Jose Inside (blog)

Wall Street doesn't earn its keep
This is the outcome of political strategies that are badly wrong in both substance and rhetoric. The rhetorical error has been to … Bad as they are, the rhetorical errors of the center-left are less significant than their failure to offer any … Read more on Salon

A New Helpline in Winter Haven Assists Those Who Struggle with Substance …
Many drug and alcohol addicts feel a certain level of hopelessness because they don't know where they can turn to find the most effective drug treatment program for them. Thanks to a new helpline devised by Drug Rehab Winter Haven, people can call and … Read more on PR Web (press release)

Grand opening delayed for Davison's first medical marijuana facility as city …
But House Bill 4271, currently in committee, could allow provisioning centers with consent from municipalities that would allowndispensing of no more than 2.5 ounces of useable marijuana in a 10-day period between a qualified patient through a … Read more on Mlive- flint

FORCED TO CHANGE: Program helping mother fight addiction
Every day she visited the Kern County Hispanic Commission, an outpatient drug treatment program teaching Matrix programs as part of Kern County's new push to keep repeat drug offenders like McCutcheon out of jail. She was scared to be free, nervous to … Read more on Bakersfield Californian