Aging Baby Boomers Bring Drug Habits Into Middle Age
“If you have a trigger, and your youth is caught up in that Woodstock mentality, you're going to revert back,” said Jamie Huysman, 60, clinical adviser to the senior program at Caron Treatment Centers, a residential drug treatment organization that … Read more on Wall Street Journal

Ex-Boxing Champ Steps Back Into Spotlight As A Face Of Addiction
But that hasn't stopped him from telling his story or from helping out addicts. At Clinica Bajo del Sol in Tijuana, a rehab center Chavez opened, some 40 men and women say a prayer before dinner. The spectacular view of the Pacific Ocean contrasts with … Read more on WGBH NEWS

Christie could find agreement with rivals over drug abuse
The center, which Oberman estimates is one of perhaps two centers in southern New Jersey, is affected by Atlantic City's broader economic woes and needs an additional $ 6 million appropriation or grant to keep the long-term treatment operation going. Read more on Vineland Daily Journal

Drug addicts struggling to reintegrate after rehab
Official figures estimate that one out of every hundred Chinese is a drug user. In the run-up to the "Two Sessions", CCTV is reporting on different aspects of Chinese society. Reporter Han Peng has spoken with drug addicts at a state-run rehab center … Read more on CCTV

Council approves recommendations for Rehab and Care Center property
Sovereign Health could be one step closer to turning the now empty Rehab & Care Center of Jackson County into a rehab center for drug and alcohol abuse. At its meeting Tuesday night, March 10, the Murphysboro City Council approved by an 9-1 vote a … Read more on Murphysboro American

Reaction swift after treatment center planned on school site
An addiction treatment company is planning to open a rehabilitation center in one of southern New Jersey's wealthy towns, and some locals are not happy about the idea. The 19-acre site in Haddonfield now used as a school for students with intellectual … Read more on News & Observer

Best Drug Rehab Center Awards Issued by 10 Best Rehab
10 Best Rehab, which is a professionally-regarded ranking system, has released its latest listing of the Best Drug Rehab Centers. The organization recently provided details on the top three drug rehab centers nationwide and information on why these … Read more on Virtual-Strategy Magazine (press release)

Couple's son seeks treatment, then wanders into tragedy
A Kearney, Neb., couple, Kim and Ted Jacques, were awarded $ 10.25 million wrongful death suit, the largest settlement against a California rehabilitation center, after their son died in an Orange County residential treatment facility in 2011. Brandon … Read more on La Crosse Tribune

Lt. Gov. hears testimony in regional heroin summit
At Father Martin's Ashley, a private nonprofit, inpatient addiction treatment center in Havre de Grace, Nursing Director Charlotte Meck said nearly one-third of the center's 1,200 patients are admitted for opiate addiction. … reducing maximum … Read more on My Eastern Shore

Human investment: the politics of trying to keep people out of prison
Instead, she received in-patient drug and alcohol treatment, mental health services, a mentor and housing as part of a five-year probation sentence. Since House Bill 3194 passed in 2013, counties across Oregon have invested in an array of programs that … Read more on Street Roots News

Northeast Delta HSA offers gambling addiction treatment
Free group and individual gambling treatment is available in all of the 12 parishes of northeastern Louisiana. Call 1-877-770-STOP or 318-331-8270 to obtain treatment information. Northeast Delta HSA directs the operation of community-based programs to … Read more on Monroe News Star

Elgin Chamber honors best member businesses, brightest volunteers
Today, what once started out as a small, one-counselor agency known as the Community Concern for Alcoholism has grown into a multifaceted, outpatient treatment center that offers a wide-range of substance abuse treatment and prevention education … Read more on Chicago Daily Herald

Violent arrest of black U-Va. student sparks scrutiny of Virginia ABC
CHARLOTTESVILLE — The violent arrest of a University of Virginia student sparked new scrutiny of Virginia's Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control on Thursday as university officials and Richmond lawmakers questioned the tactics and approach of the … Read more on Washington Post

Residential and out-patient treatment programs for drug/alcohol abuse
Addiction to alcohol and other drugs can impact a person in any walk of life. What people often underestimate is the complexity of drug addiction – that it is a disease which impacts the brain and because of that, stopping drug abuse is not simply a … Read more on LubbockOnline.com

Advocates Want Noland, Moeller to Reverse Rauner Drug Treatment Budget Cuts
In a letter from Latino Treatment Center executive Director Adriana Trino to State Senator Michael Noland (D-Elgin) and State Rep. Anna Moeller (D-Elgin), the Elgin-based advocate warns that the non-profit's funding … Rauner is aiming to slice $ 27.6 … Read more on Chicago Tribune

Low bail in alleged drugged driving fatality in Hanson called 'ridiculous'
Sansone is under house arrest. She must wear an electronic monitoring device, use no drugs or alcohol, submit to random urinalysis and not drive, Middleton said. Sansone's bail amount stunned Langlais' longtime friend Rachel Sanda of Hanson. “That's it? Read more on The Patriot Ledger

Meridian goes upscale with addiction treatment center
But Beauterre paid more than $ 3.5 million last summer to acquire a 180-acre campus that now includes a 61-bed residential addiction treatment and recovery center for adults who abuse or are dependent on alcohol or other drugs. The center also is … Read more on Green Bay Press Gazette

New Designer Drug, Flakka, Plagues Floridas Streets, Similar to Bath Salts
Harbor Village Detox is an inpatient medical detox facility committed to providing the apex of drug and alcohol treatment in South Florida. Their medical addiction experts warn the South Florida community to stay away from synthetic addictive … Read more on KEYC

Model for Ohio
DART refers minor drug offenders to treatment. Some of them will land in Zepf's recovery housing program. Lucas County not only has created a unique treatment unit run by the sheriff's office, but also has developed a growing network of treatment … Read more on Toledo Blade

Problems worsen for two drug treatment centers
Time stopped in October for two drug treatment centers on Boston's Long Island, when the city shut down the bridge that was the only route to their facilities. Both had to abandon their offices on the island. Their clients — poor and trying to kick … Read more on Boston Globe (subscription)

Huntington Mayor Williams Announces Multi Agency Addiction Treatment …
LEAD (Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion) – LEAD is a pre-booking diversion program that allows officers to redirect low-level offenders engaged in drugs or prostitution activity to treatment services instead of jail and prosecution. The city is … Read more on HNN Huntingtonnews.net

Veterans Courts trending in Arizona
With more military men and women returning from the battlefield with physical and mental wounds, courts that cater only to veterans — focusing on rehabilitation rather than punishment — are operating across the country, and Arizona is on the vanguard … Read more on azcentral.com