Lindsay Lohan To Be Treated For Alcohol & Prescription Drug Abuse While In …
Lindsay Lohan is to be treated for alcohol and prescription drug abuse when she enters into her latest stint of court ordered rehab — which will be her SIXTH attempt at getting sober — even though the 26-year-old troubled actress continues to …
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Lindsay Lohan to be treated for alcohol and prescription drug addiction in rehab
The 'Liz & Dick' actress – who agreed to plead no contest to two misdemeanor charges in relation to a car accident last summer in return for 90 days treatment in a residential clinic – will undergo her sixth attempt at getting sober when she begins her …
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Addiction Treatment Center Opens in Jackson Ohio
Funding for the center that opened Tuesday includes $ 500,000 from the Governor's Office of Appalachia and $ 200,000 in federal substance abuse dollars provided by the Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services. The center will also be …
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Indiana police battle prescription drug abuse
Columbus police point to four recent initiatives as their best new weapons to slow the tide of prescription drug theft and abuse. The Indiana Scheduled Prescription Electronic Collection and Tracking program, also known as INSPECT: The secure online …
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Zoeller cracking down on doctors
Kokomo — When Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller calls prescription drug abuse “one of the gravest issues facing Hoosiers today,” he means it quite literally. With hundreds of Hoosiers dying from prescription drug overdoses each year, Zoeller and …
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Indiana better than some states, worse than others, with gun background checks
The federal government tried after the Virginia Tech shooting to provide both incentives and penalties for states to share more records, both for mental illness as well as other disqualifiers, such as drug abuse or a felony conviction. The Justice …
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Prescription Drug Abuse Continues to Threaten US, A Forever Recovery …
A Forever Recovery offers open-ended treatment to help those suffering from substance abuse overcome these issues, but notes that if possible, it is best to take note of these addictions early on and employ necessary measures to make sure habits do not …
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Intensive outpatient treatment for substance abuse and addiction
Question: We heard that you are now offering an IOP for substance abuse and addiction. What exactly is an IOP, and why should someone go? Answer: IOP stands for Intensive Outpatient Program. It's intensive therapy on an outpatient basis, and it is an …
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Punjab State Cancer and Drug Addiction Treatment Infrastructure Act on anvil
CHANDIGARH: The state government is bringing the Punjab State Cancer and Drug Addiction Treatment Infrastructure Act for approval of the legislators. Cancer is a serious problem in the state, leading to nearly 34,430 deaths in the past five years, as …
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Prescription Drug Abuse Continues to Threaten US, A Forever Recovery …
A Forever Recovery offers open-ended treatment to help those suffering from substance abuse overcome these issues, but notes that if possible, it is best to take note of these addictions early on and employ necessary measures to make sure habits do not …
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Conference addresses substance abuse treatment
Conference addresses substance abuse treatment. Pediatricians can learn best practices for addressing substance use by patients or family members, and suggestions on how to implement these practices at an AAP-sponsored conference April 26-28 in …
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Fighting Wallingford Drug Abuse: Lawmakers Want Insurance Companies to …
Rich Figlewski, who runs the substance-abuse free zone Dry Dock at 68 Quinnipiac St., told the committee about how he was a recovering addict who received treatment for a long time. Figlewski spoke of deaths in the community from drug overdoses, which …
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Prevention efforts focused on youth reduce prescription abuse into adulthood
All of these interventions addressed general risk and protective factors for substance abuse rather than specifically targeting prescription drug abuse. In follow-up questionnaires and telephone interviews completed at 17-25 years of age, students …
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Court Intervention Alliance graduates first class
Melissa Newton blows a kiss to supporters, her family, during a graduation ceremony held for Court Intervention Alliance participants. The program helps people with drug and alcohol addiction issues to get counseling and treatment, and to become …
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Editorial: Addiction Intervention and Treatment Work
I am frequently asked what treatment programs are the most effective, and then comes the question: “Is it true drug and alcohol treatment programs don't work?” That kind of question is often a form of an excuse from the active addict who is in denial …
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