American Addiction Centers Named to Inc. 500 List Recognition for Three-Year …
American Addiction Centers, a leading national provider of inpatient substance abuse treatment services for individuals with drug and/or alcohol addiction, has been named to the Inc. 500 List of America's Fastest Growing Private Companies. The company … Read more on DigitalJournal.com

Robin Williams' death highlights challenge of treating severe depression
Dr. Harry Croft, a psychiatrist and addiction expert and chief of CNS Trials at the Clinical Trials of Texas, says the phrase suggests to him that Williams wasn't actually planning to visit a rehab center for addiction but was instead seeking help at a … Read more on CBS News

Adolescent substance abuse centers receive grants
prescription drugs The grants will fund comprehensive adolescent substance abuse treatment programs, both expanding treatment beds at existing facilities and creating new adolescent treatment programs with the full continuum of care, including … Read more on The Lane Report

Robin Williams Drug Problems: Alcohol, Cocaine Addiction Punctuated Brilliant …
Months earlier he had checked into rehab, where he was treated for alcohol addiction. He told ABC's Diane Sawyer that falling back into abuse was “very gradual,” and that addiction is a sickness that knows no statute of limitations. “It waits,” he said … Read more on International Business Times

KVC Kentucky Awarded Million Substance Abuse Treatment Grant to Help …
KVC Kentucky was among 19 substance abuse treatment providers who were selected for funding through the program. The grants were announced by Attorney General Jack Conway, Gov. Steve Beshear, First Lady Jane Beshear and members of the … Read more on Virtual-Strategy Magazine (press release)

Coptic Orthodox Diocese plans substance abuse treatment facility near Brooksville
The Hernando County Planning and Zoning Commission on Monday will hear an application from the Coptic Orthodox Diocese of the Southern United States for a special exception allowing a substance abuse rehabilitation facility and church on property off … Read more on Tampabay.com

Dublin drug treatment centre pilots scheme for rural clients
One of the main rehabilitation centres for adolescent drug users in Dublin is piloting a new scheme offering one-off assessments to young people with similar issues in other parts of the country. Dr Gerry McCarney, consultant child and adolescent … Read more on Irish Examiner

US study on ramen noodles causes emotional heartburn in S. Korea
… instant noodles at a shopping center in Seoul, South Korea. By value, instant noodles were the top-selling manufactured food in South Korea in 2012, the most recent year figures are available, according to South Korea's Ministry of Food and Drug … Read more on Centre Daily Times

Cooking Has Helped Turn Recovering Addicts' Lives Around
… from alcohol and substance abuse. Launched by Noreen Oliver, a former alcoholic, and connected to the treatment center she runs, BAC O' Connor, Langan's Tea Rooms offers paid and voluntary work to ex-users who have received treatment at the center. Read more on Munchies_ Food by VICE

Parish passes ordinance blocking rehab center location
As a standing room only crowd applauded when the St. Landry Parish Council Wednesday night unanimously approved a new ordinance designed to block the establishment of a drug rehabilitation complex in the Sunset area. Homeowners in South St. Landry … Read more on Opelousas Daily World

Talking about depression and suicide prevention in the wake of Robin Williams …
Lynn Patrone: Good Morning, My name is Lynn Patrone and I am with the Department of Public Welfare, Office of Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services. Thank you for inviting me participate. Tim Boyer: Hello, my name is Tim Boyer and I am the Mental … Read more on The Patriot-News

Poverty and education
But the incidence of certain factors — hunger and malnutrition, abuse and neglect, exposure to drugs and drug-related activity, unavailability (or even inability) of parents to help with homework and other school assignments — is demonstrably greater … Read more on Weld for Birmingham (blog)

Still no ruling in the Josh Gordon case
The substance-abuse policy requires that a decision be made within a “reasonable time.” That's a fuzzy concept, but given the delays already inherent to the process, it's all starting to feel unreasonable. Under the plain language of the substance … Read more on NBCSports.com

Biden's office arrests nursing assistant on patient abuse charges
The Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit's team of prosecutors, investigators, and other support staff investigates and prosecutes abuse, neglect, drug diversion and financial exploitation occurring in facilities which receive Medicaid … Read more on news.delaware.gov

Crisis hotline is resource Charles County needs
Mental illness, drug abuse. Those words are being discussed more and more when talk turns to problems that many families in our community are facing these days. And for more than 30 years, Charles County has had a resource available to the hundreds of … Read more on So Md News

Prosecutor unveils anti-heroin plan
Gmoser set up a hotline and put out a call through the media in May asking for heroin addicts or recovering addicts to meet with him confidentially for a chat on what got them started. He said 85 percent of the cases coming through grand jury were drug … Read more on Cincinnati.com

Seniors learn to protect themselves from fraud, drug misuse
Other prevention methods touted were having clear rules about substance abuse, promoting healthy activities and being a role model by setting a positive example. Valerie Mariano, chief of community and crime prevention at the Department of the Attorney … Read more on West Hawaii Today

ABC's Elizabeth Vargas enters rehab for alcohol abuse
LOS ANGELES (AP) – ABC News reporter Elizabeth Vargas has returned to a recovery center to be treated for alcohol dependency, she and the network said Sunday. The "20/20" co-anchor said in an emailed statement that she checked into a treatment … Read more on WKRN

The U.S. Addiction Rehab Industry
10 in-depth company profiles are provided for: Hazelden Treatment Centers, Betty Ford Center, CRC Health Group, Elements Behavioral Health, Passage Malibu, The Caron Foundation, Comprehensive Care Corp., Malibu Horizon Rehab Center, Behavioral … Read more on SYS-CON Media (press release)

We Don't Really Know How To Treat Depression And Alcoholism At The Same …
"When folks would show up at mental health centers with a substance abuse problem, a referral is often made for them to go and get substance abuse counseling first — get cleaned up, and then get your depression treated," explained Gamble in a phone … Read more on Huffington Post

Inpatient Treatment – General Overview of Treatment Process