Lacking Funds, Springfield Inmate Treatment Center Faces Eviction And An …
As MGM prepares to build its casino in Springfield's South End, it's bought up a cluster of properties, evicting businesses and organizations. Among them is the Western Massachusetts Correctional Alcohol Center. It's a substance abuse treatment center … Read more on New England Public Radio

Addiction Treatment Goes Public: AAC's Recovery-Center Empire
Late one afternoon in September 2013, Jeremiah Jackson stopped in at his drug dealer's house to pick up heroin. While waiting around, he checked his voice mail and found a message from American Addiction Centers, a chain of drug and alcohol treatment … Read more on Bloomberg

Johnny Manziel in Rehab: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
From cleveland.com: “Manziel's partying was chronicled over the last year, from floating on swans to rolling up a bill in the bar of a bathroom, which the Browns found most 'disturbing.'” The name and location of the rehab center has not been disclosed. Read more on Heavy.com

Experienced Drug and Alcohol Detox Center Opens its Doors in Georgia, Fully …
In light of the current drug and alcohol dependency epidemic hitting communities across our nation, Sunrise Detox, an experienced industry-leader in drug and alcohol detox, opened the doors of its newest detox center in Alpharetta, Georgia on Wednesday … Read more on PR Web (press release)

New residential drug and alcohol treatment center opens
A new faith-based residential treatment center that helps adult women recover from drug and alcohol addictions has opened in Willard. Teen Challenge of the Firelands — which despite its name treats women of all ages 18 and over — opened a few weeks … Read more on Sandusky Register

County Jail Programs Tackle Addiction Across US
A spell in the county lockup gives inmates plenty of time to think and some jails give them plenty to think about, as they assess — voluntarily or not — the roles alcohol and drugs have played in their lives with substance abuse treatment programs … Read more on PublicCEO.com

New White Paper Published by Innovative Detox Compares Conventional …
Using this extensive documentation, this study found that traditional alcohol and drug rehab programs, based on the 28-day residential treatment program pioneered by Hazelden more than 35 years ago — a flawed approach that is totally dependent on the … Read more on Marketwired (press release)

Drug Treatment Court Participation Down
Their All Rise Philosophy and public service announcement persuade advocates that judges and lawyers know more about drug and alcohol addiction than the medical community. In the over 20 years of these expanding courts, there is not … Although we … Read more on Huffington Post

Life of Purpose: Substance abuse treatment center for college students
Life of Purpose Treatment aims to serve as a bridge between a person's issues with addiction and substance abuse and a successful experience as a student. It is believed to be the only program of its kind on a college campus in the United States … Read more on WPTV.com

Treatment centers, insurance work to agree on heroin care
When someone wants treatment to end a heroin addiction, insurance shouldn't hold him back. That's the perspective of addiction treatment professionals who say the biggest issue they face with insurance companies is disagreements over whether a patient … Read more on Chicago Daily Herald

Treating heroin addiction
Community mental health centers are experts at addiction treatment and therapy and are ready to work collaboratively with the Department of Corrections to provide needed treatment and wrap around services to reduce the recidivism and relapse rate and … Read more on The Courier-Journal

Extension publication can help communities stem Indiana's meth problem
The authors say the effects of meth use and production go beyond the obvious health problems, which include an increase in admissions to substance abuse treatment facilities for meth addictions from 2003 to 2013. Buildings such as houses where meth is … Read more on Purdue Agricultural Communications

Denn: Use M on housing, schools, police
Attorney General Matt Denn wants to use $ 36 million in financial settlement money to provide millions in temporary funding for substance abuse treatment, after school programs, community policing patrols, teachers in high-poverty schools and new … Read more on The News Journal

Former Drug Users Share Their Stories At VHS
Valley High School students received an important lesson in drug prevention Thursday as Brandi Murray of the Wetzel County Coalition Against Drug Abuse, Mike Koontz of the Wetzel County Sheriff's Office, and three very vital guests teamed up to talk … Read more on Wetzel Chronicle

AAC Holdings, Inc. Provides Facility Updates in California, Florida and Nevada
BRENTWOOD, Tenn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–AAC Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: AAC), disclosed that on January 8, 2015, its new substance abuse outpatient center in Las Vegas, Nevada, received full licensure for intensive outpatient treatment services and has begun … Read more on Business Wire (press release)

Hastings would be good location for treatment center
… the building would be used for maximum and medium custody inmates who are within a year to 18 months of being released on parole or of completing their prison sentence. The center would provide behavioral health and substance abuse treatment. Read more on Grand Island Independent

Manatee Sheriff's Office seeking suspect in Sunday night stabbing
The suspect fled on foot, while Young and his girlfriend managed to make it to the safety of an apartment, where they then called police. Young was taken to a local medical center for treatment. The suspect is still on the loose. If you have any … Read more on WWSB ABC 7

Company's struggles highlight challenges of inmate care
20, 2014 AND THEREAFTER – This undated photo provided by Thomas Denham shows Tracy Veira, center, with her children Nevaeh Davis, left, and Nathan Welch, right, in Orange City, Fla. … Months after he landed in Florida's Manatee County Jail, Jovon … Read more on Beaumont Enterprise

Award presented to Austin J. Slater Jr. and SMECO
La Plata, MD – Catherine Meyers, President of the Maryland Children's Alliance Executive Board and Executive Director of the Center for Children, presented Austin J. Slater Jr. and Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative (SMECO) with the 2014 Maryland … Read more on Bay Net

Court Log – Jan. 19
Sentenced to probation of 6 months, ordered to complete treatment, complete addiction severity index report and abide by recommendations. Michael P. McNair, 36, Doylestown, pleaded guilty to driving under the influence Nov. 1, 2013. … Matthew G … Read more on Bucks County Courier Times

Daytop Announces New Members of Board of Trustees
PARSIPPANY — Two new business and community leaders were appointed to the Daytop Board of Trustees, said Jim Curtin, President and CEO of Daytop New Jersey, a comprehensive substance abuse treatment and education program facility based in … Read more on Parsippany Focus

Care teams emphasize emotional support
By the time Christine DeFalco, a care manager for Cornerstone Family Programs, enters the lives of the senior citizens she helps, they sometimes have gone a long while without help or direction. They're referred to Cornerstone by local hospitals … So … Read more on Daily Record

CHAD director: 'Owning an addiction is not simple'
In 1982, Hares brought two programs together – treatment for alcoholism and programs for substance abuse – and created one program. The state Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS) was formed, finally making it clear that “Addiction is … Read more on Auburn Citizen