Community Coalition seeks input via online survey
Sea Mar offers mental health and substance abuse treatment for adults at their Behavioral Health Services clinic, medical and dental care services at their community health center, and substance abuse treatment oriented towards youth at their youth … Read more on Monroe Monitor

'By the time it's approved, the client's gone': Insurance, system failures …
As McKay's first pangs of withdrawal kicked in – vomiting, diarrhea, shaking and cold sweats – his family was told that detoxification centers across the county were full. A hospital in Pittsburgh turned McKay away because it didn't consider opioid … Read more on PennLive.com

Survey shows high incidence of mental illness, trauma among R.I.'s homeless
The survey reinforces what advocates have long argued: the homeless spend a disproportionate amount of time in costly emergency rooms, jails, hospitals and detox centers. According to the coalition, 545 of those surveyed visited an emergency room 3,815 … Read more on The Providence Journal

Ruben Rosario: She died alone and homeless, but she will not be forgotten
Indeed, in order to secure a one-room apartment at the facility, residents must have 20 or more admissions to detox centers in the past three years, two or more attempts at chemical dependency treatment and have been homeless for most of the past five … Read more on TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press

Oregon pays steep price for neglected addiction treatment system
Others are guided to treatment by family or friends, checking into the publicly funded programs, or relying on insurance to enter private treatment centers. Last year, 22,620 Oregonians used publicly funded care. Because of the complexity of the system … Read more on OregonLive.com

Combine Solicitation – G– Substance Abuse Treatment Program (SATP)
The Department of Veterans Affairs , C.W. Bill Young VA Medical Center , hereafter referred to as CWBYVAMC, 10000 Bay Pines Blvd. , St. Petersburg, FL has a need for a total of seven (7) reserved beds in a Residential Mental Health and Substance Abuse … Read more on Insurance News Net

New substance abuse centers set for Monterey, Salinas
Monterey >> This isn't Natalie's first time in recovery. It isn't even her first time at Genesis House, a residential drug treatment facility in Seaside run by Community Human Services. She graduated from the Genesis House in early 2012 and continued … Read more on Monterey County Herald

Drug disposal program coming to Indiana
The Yellow Jugs Old Drugs Program works together with local pharmacies and the Indiana Prescription Drug Abuse Task Force to provide secure drug disposal. Pharmacies across Indiana will receive letters this week inviting them to join the program, which … Read more on WTHI

Drug program expands to Indiana
"I think any program that allows people more options is great, we saw a need, it's great that the state is actually seeing a need that way they can expand this out throughout the state," says Under Sheriff Sean Holmes of the Elkhart County Sheriff's … Read more on Fox 28

Indiana addicts trapped in rehab backlog
I-Team 8's investigation found just five Hoosier substance abuse programs receive the bulk of state funding designated for low-income inpatient substance abuse treatment. Combined, those five facilities have a total of just 88 beds available at any … Read more on WISH-TV

WHO: malaria gains 'at risk' in Ebola-affected countries
The outbreak has had a devastating effect on the roll-out of malaria treatment and prevention campaigns. In the three countries most severely affected by Ebola – Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia – most inpatient facilities are closed, and outpatient … Read more on Medical News Today

Heroin treatment Suboxone exposes divide between medical community, policy …
There is a quiet barrier between the medical community and much of the state when it comes to medication-based substance abuse treatment, one that underscores the difficulties in addressing the state's ever-growing battle with heroin and prescription … Read more on NJ.com

Ceres recovery center expanding drug, alcohol treatment
Residential and day treatment also is provided for adults who struggle with dual substance abuse and mental illness. With the expansion, the Medi-Cal program is supposed to fund voluntary inpatient detoxification, residential treatment, outpatient … Read more on Modesto Bee

Similar cases yield very different results in Wisconsin prison system
That means Whiteside could have been set free after about 12 years, and will likely have to be released after about 31. He has …. Another roadblock Whiteside faces is that he must complete a substance abuse treatment program before he can be released. Read more on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Legal marijuana may have unintended consequences
Ironically, treatment centers such as Serenity Lane stand to benefit from the election results. It's not uncommon at all for us to see marijuana addiction among our patients who come in for treatment for alcoholism, prescription drug and/or opiate … Read more on The Register-Guard

Lincoln Park students hear how childhood trauma can result in addiction
By the time he was discharged in 1994, he was institutionalized in maximum security at a Veterans Administration hospital, where he was treated for alcoholism and bipolar disorder. It was during that treatment that he discovered his own self. "You have … Read more on NorthJersey.com

Houston sobering center turns to public for help
The vans are part of what substance abuse professionals call the "warm handoff" principle, the idea that a person who agrees to get help should be quickly shepherded to a detox or treatment center, whatever the next step might be, without pause and … Read more on Houston Chronicle

Fighting addiction with another drug
Last year, heroin was the leading reason people ages 18 to 29 sought treatment for substance abuse, far surpassing admissions for alcohol, methamphetamine or prescription drugs. The number of young people admitted for heroin treatment has more than … Read more on The Columbian

Sheriff's Office: Pontiac man dies of suspected drug overdose hours before …
A 32-year-old Pontiac man is believed to have died of a drug overdose late Wednesday, Nov. 19, just hours before he was to enter a substance abuse rehabilitation clinic, according to the Oakland County Sheriff's Office. The man's aunt and uncle found … Read more on The Oakland Press

Providers say state rates harming addiction treatment
BOSTON (SHNS) – Addiction treatment industry officials skewered proposed reimbursement rates from the Patrick administration as “completely inadequate” and “capricious” during a hearing Tuesday before lawmakers who are reviewing the rate-setting … Read more on wwlp.com

Social worker charged with smoking crack while driving on I-65 with child in car
HOOVER, Alabama – A manager of a Birmingham substance abuse treatment center faces charges after authorities said she was driving down I-65 smoking a crack pipe with a young child in her car. Bari Joy Williams, 44, of Gardendale, is charged with … Read more on AL.com