New Meds Block Heroin Craving, But Reporter Finds Treatment Centers Don't …
I want to try my best to stick with the teachings of The Big Book, and he did. He went to meetings every night. He could quote The Big Book from memory to his mother at the dinner table. But at the end of the week he wasn't doing so well and he … Read more on KCUR

Oregon refuges: Rehab work is a bear of a job
Right now no one is good enough to rehabilitate black bears in Oregon, where no rehab centers have the facilities, staff and policies in place to meet the meticulous protocols for ensuring that cubs raised in captivity don't turn into nuisance bears … Read more on Daily Astorian

The best and worst nursing homes in Central Jersey
It was dinnertime at the Bridgeway Care and Rehab Center in Hillsborough when the staff heard a patient shouting, "Help me! Help me!" The patient, described in a federal Health Department inspection report only as Resident No. 14, had poured a bowl of … Read more on MyCentralJersey.com

Rehmer Reportedly Leaving As State Mental Health Chief
14, 2012, shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Rehmer worked with the governor's budget office to reverse plans to cut more than $ 7 million in funds from mental health and addiction programs. "We really can't afford to hit the service … Read more on Hartford Courant

Spread of for-profit clothing bins is drawing complaints
Donations left in Goodwill or Salvation Army bins are often sold to fund services such as employment training and alcohol-treatment programs. Donations left in Viltex's bins? No one really knows. Viltex's sparse website says the company is a for-profit … Read more on Philly.com

How a Woman Overcame Her Exercise Addiction
Outside the treatment center, fitness wasn't a negative thing — it was hailed as the paramount of perfection, attractiveness, and appeal. (Read about 13 Mental Health Benefits of Exercise.) Over time, exercise became a means of coping with all … Read more on POPSUGAR

Putting recovery in the light Addiction too destructive to ignore
A former heroin addict who believes that going to jail saved her life, the energetic 37-year-old Exeter woman is now the regional coordinator for Allies in Substance Abuse Prevention for the United Way. She is working with the nonprofit group Hope for … Read more on Foster’s Daily Democrat

Free Vivitrol therapy starts for Florida drug addicts ordered to seek treatment
"This is a tool in their tool belt to help better engage substance abuse treatment services and get the most out of their treatment." Florida experienced a surge of prescription pain-killer related deaths in the early 2000s. Federal authorities said 98 … Read more on Tampabay.com

Troubled veterans get treatment, not jail
And one run by the state Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services shows a 36 percent drop in illegal drug use among its veterans and a 44 percent decrease in symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder. "So many people are getting what they … Read more on Danbury News Times

Treating China's Internet Addicts
In 2008, China became the first nation to declare Internet addiction a clinical disorder. Recently, the Spanish photographer Fernando Moleres spent three days documenting patients at an Internet-addiction treatment center outside of Beijing. Residents … Read more on The New Yorker

Triple Threat: Beyond Mental Health and Substance Abuse Issues
Each had parallel treatment and discrete funding streams. As that decade drew to a close, so appeared the term dual diagnosis, a clinical moniker which appropriately — finally! — acknowledges the reality that those who experience substance abuse … Read more on Huffington Post

Gowdy, Duncan support Keystone Pipeline
Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., cited Botticelli's more than two decades of experience at substance abuse treatment agencies. Feinstein added that Botticelli, currently Acting Director of National Drug Control Policy, has focused on an approach that treats … Read more on Greenville News

Bill would shift more substance abuse oversight to MCOs
Currently, those responsibilities are shared by the nine MCOs, which include CenterPoint Human Services of Winston-Salem, and three state-operated alcohol and drug abuse inpatient treatment centers. The three state-operated centers receive $ 40 million … Read more on Winston-Salem Journal

Fourth quarter good for speedway gasoline profits
Substance abuse treatment professionals in the Ohio Valley have created a new website, drugfreeov.com, with the goal of reducing the impact of drug addiction on the community by helping people obtain treatment. Substance abuse treatment professionals … Read more on State Journal

Rick Perry says changes in drug laws led to lowest Texas crime rate since 1968
Lawmakers created local drug courts, Perry said, also creating "diversion programs that treat alcoholism and drug addiction as a disease and not a moral failing." "And because of these changes in policy, we've … Generally, Texas Christian University … Read more on PolitiFact

Strawberry's journey a long, twisting one
He has spent time in Jail and at drug treatment centers and he has overcome all those issues, as well colon cancer and the removal of a cancerous kidney, and today lives a totally different life. Now an ordained minister, Strawberry said in an 2013 … Read more on Macon Telegraph (blog)

CERENIS THERAPEUTICS Announces the Appointment of a New Chief Medical …
BUSINESS WIRE)–Cerenis Therapeutics, the biopharmaceutical HDL company developing CER-001, an engineered human apoA-I-containing pre-? HDL mimetic for the treatment of cardiovascular disease, today announced the appointment of a new … "The Board … Read more on Business Wire (press release)

It's Been A Hard 12-Step Road For Zanzibar's Heroin Addicts
He not only stopped using drugs but also made amends to friends and family he'd harmed as an addict. "And before you make … But the program's Christian connection turned out to be a sensitive topic in Zanzibar, where the mostly Muslim population has … Read more on NPR (blog)

Local law enforcement addresses new drug trends
Cmdr. Justin Wood and agent Russ Jude, both of the East Central Drug and Violent Offenders Task Force, came to the Hazelden addiction treatment center in Center City Jan. 28 to talk to a group of addiction specialists about the ever-changing realm of … Read more on ECM Post Review

Christie signs bill to address growing heroin, prescription drug epidemic
… of Mental Health and Addiction Services to prepare an annual report detailing the performance of treatment providers, and mandate that the state provide mental health and substance-abuse treatment programs for inmates in state-run or contracted … Read more on NorthJersey.com

Top local news stories of the week
ELKO – The world's No. 1 healthiest sport – according to Forbes Magazine – has finally come to Elko. Squash professional Robby Testa, in conjunction with Powerhouse Gym and Fitness Center and US Squash, are responsible for bringing the sport to the … Read more on Elko Daily Free Press

Fighter of city's heroin abuse to attend State of the Union
CONNERSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — The leader of a drug treatment center in an eastern Indiana city hit hard by heroin abuse will be U.S. Sen. Joe Donnelly's guest for the State of the Union address. Donnelly says he invited Sharon Cranfill of Connersville to … Read more on WISH-TV