New drug–treatment center offers counseling, social support
Yucca Valley Center for Change is a new provider of substance abuse counseling and recovery. The center, which operates as part of Mental Health Systems, provides outpatient services through group sessions, individual counseling and support for people …
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State: Drug treatment options exist despite local backlog
Jose D'Leon, 21, is recovering from alcohol addiction. He started coming to the Turning Point Center six months ago, where he found a support group, attended meetings and started getting sober. He recently found a job. 'Things are getting better,' he said.
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Viewpoint: How the Drug Treatment System Failed Cory Monteith
Heroin, an opioid, produces tolerance, so that users not only need more drug to experience a “high,” but also higher amounts to overdose. Abstaining for a few weeks, as many rehab programs require, lowers this tolerance so if an addict were to use …
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Trenton drug rehab patients forced to look to Florida for help
TRENTON — The streets of Trenton are home to drug smuggling and consumption, but the limit in drug rehab centers in the city has many fleeing to Florida for their cleansing. Although addiction advocate groups are common in the area, these facilities …
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Recovery Associates Brings Its Leading-Edge Drug and Alcohol Treatment …
Recovery Associates is a drug and alcohol treatment center that provides a variety of programs and services for men, women and teens struggling with chemical dependency issues. At the core of their philosophy is the belief that addiction is a treatable …
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Cymbrowitz gets state, city to halt construction of drug treatment center
A drug treatment center is suffering a withdrawal of state support. Construction on a Sheepshead Bay substance-abuse treatment center was halted after Assemblyman Steve Cymbrowitz and Community Board 15 chairwoman Theresa Scavo took state …
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Gateway's retiring CEO built a network of treatment facilities
After some time with the VA Center, Ramsey left to start a drug and alcohol treatment program at the former St. Joseph's Hospital on Pittsburgh's south side. During his nine-year tenure there as the program's executive director, he built the drug and …
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16 Medi-Cal substance abuse treatment centers are under investigation
Sixteen drug and alcohol treatment centers that provide rehabilitative services to Medi-Cal patients are suspected of fraud and of hiring providers with felonies on their records, officials from the California Department of Health Care Services …
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State: Drug treatment options exist despite local backlog
Department of Health statistics for Vermont show the breakdown of care for 9,401 clients who received substance abuse treatment in 2012. Substance abuse treatment covers alcohol, marijuana/hashish, heroin and other opiates, and other substances.
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State: Drug treatment options exist despite local backlog
The confusion prompted the Legislature to direct the Agency of Human Services to report next January “on the capacity of the system, including outpatient, inpatient, residential treatment, and recovery substance abuse, medical, and mental health …
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Rehab center is slated to go into Sheepshead Bay apartment building
Enlarge this image. Photo by Steve Solomonson. Rehab rejection: Stewart Gross — who lives at this E. 21st Street apartment that a drug abuse treatment center wants to move into — says the center moving in will bring crime and he'll leave.
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State suspends 16 Medi-Cal drug treatment centers
SACRAMENTO (AP) — State officials are temporarily suspending 16 California alcohol and drug treatment centers suspected of violating health care laws — from hiring people who were convicted of abusing patients to bilking Medi-Cal for services they …
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Recovery Associates Brings Its Leading-Edge Drug and Alcohol Treatment …
Recovery Associates is a drug and alcohol treatment center that provides a variety of programs and services for men, women and teens struggling with chemical dependency issues. At the core of their philosophy is the belief that addiction is a treatable …
Read more on PR Web (press release)

16 Medi-Cal substance abuse treatment centers are under investigation
The Drug Medi-Cal program, a service paid for by state and federal taxes, covers Medi-Cal recipients' treatment of substance use disorders. . Medi-Cal is the state's health insurance plan for people on welfare and other low-income residents who qualify.
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Viewpoint: How the Drug Treatment System Failed Cory Monteith
Part of the problem may have been with the rehab program itself; research suggests that many programs don't take advantage of available medications approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), don't provide talk therapy program that have been …
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State: Drug treatment options exist despite local backlog
William Young, executive director, had said the move was intended to address Maple Leaf's chronic backlog of people seeking admittance to its residential treatment program. However, residential treatment options are available elsewhere in the state.
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16 Medi-Cal substance abuse treatment centers are under investigation
Sixteen drug and alcohol treatment centers that provide rehabilitative services to Medi-Cal patients are suspected of fraud and of hiring providers with felonies on their records, officials from the California Department of Health Care Services …
Read more on Los Angeles Times

State: Drug treatment options exist despite local backlog
Department of Health statistics for Vermont show the breakdown of care for 9,401 clients who received substance abuse treatment in 2012. Substance abuse treatment covers alcohol, marijuana/hashish, heroin and other opiates, and other substances.
Read more on BurlingtonFreePress.com

Monteith's Death Shows Rehab Alone Won't Cure Addiction
"People have the impression that treatment is complete when the person is sober. They're not using the drug anymore, so they're all better," said Dr. Stuart Gitlow, president of the American Society of Addiction Medicine. "In chronic lifelong disease …
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