Why not just put addicts in prison? Not treating heroin abuse is costlier than …
Next year, the state will expand Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act, which means that roughly 600,000 uninsured residents in the state will be covered by the program. The expansion should significantly reduce the cost … Jack Carroll … Read more on PennLive.com

New Roads Behavioral Health opens second treatment facility in Fort …
New Roads Behavioral Health based out of Sandy, Utah announces the opening of their new drug and alcohol rehab facility in sunny Fort Lauderdale, Florida. New Roads' Florida location is a therapeutic, residential drug treatment center that treats young … Read more on PR Web (press release)

Teaching Friends And Family How To Reverse A Drug Overdose
Graham-Farmer knew what to do that day because, as of 2012, the whole staff at the residential drug treatment program where she works (Samaritan Village in Richmond Hill, Queens) has been trained to use Narcan, and to keep a rescue kit containing two … Read more on WFAE

What drug treatment in Delaware looks like
Additionally, the state's health department has requested more than $ 4 million in next year's budget to support programs aimed at expanding the bed space and access to treatment centers statewide as well as curbing teenage prescription drug use. Read more on The News Journal

Philly is 'mecca for people in recovery'
Ford has spent 20 years as a community liaison for the city's Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual Disability Services on 8th Street near Market, where he gets uninsured and under-insured drug and alcohol addicts into recovery programs. Read more on Philly.com

Riverview Hospital Will Host New Rehab Program For Addiction, Mental Health
Client services will include programs for ongoing support, assessment, crisis intervention, co-ordinated psychiatric and medical treatment, life-and-social skills, drug-and-alcohol recovery, jobs skills, education and peer support, said Lake. "By … Read more on Huffington Post Canada

Kentucky's St. Elizabeth Healthcare names Lori Ritchey-Baldwin CFO
The Northern Kentucky health system is the 10th largest employer in Greater Cincinnati, with more than 7,200 workers. Ritchey-Baldwin, who had been vice president of finance for the past two years, helped develop St. Elizabeth's strategic and financial … Read more on Healthcare Finance News

Substance and alcohol abuse rising among elderly
… who noted that a third of elderly alcoholics develop a substance abuse problem after age 50. Brenda Iliff?is executive director of Hazelden, an addiction treatment center in Naples, Fla., whose BoomersPlus? program targets older adults. She said … Read more on Dallas Morning News

Northampton County ends it prison drug treatment program
Two weeks after Northampton County Council slashed the funding for a controversial drug treatment program in the prison, County Executive John Brown said he had no choice but to end it. Brown this week sent a 30-day … Baratta said more than 30 … Read more on Allentown Morning Call

Family: Homeless Petaluma man who died struggled with alcoholism
Patton had spent many of the past 15 years living outdoors, in and out of shelters and treatment programs for alcohol addiction before he died last week. Remembered as a loving, kind man by his family, Patton died Dec. 16 from apparent natural causes … Read more on Santa Rosa Press Democrat

Plans for Rehab Center in Carbondale Moving Forward
Plans are moving forward to turn a former hospital in Lackawanna County into a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center. The proposal for Marian Community Hospital in Carbondale isn't without controversy. Last month, a judge said plans for the rehab … Read more on PA home page

Gilbert ranch provides drug, alcohol rehab to young men
If you take the long way home in the east Valley, near Val Vista Drive and Hunt Highway, you'll find the Welcome Home Ranch. But it's not any ranch. It's also a drug and alcohol treatment center. So what inspired a Canadian millionaire to open up a … Read more on KPHO Phoenix

Goshen's New Day Home addiction treatment center investigated for …
According to a news release from the Indiana Attorney General's Office, New Day Home, 63700 C.R. 31, has never been certified as an in-patient facility by the Indiana State Department of Health, and unlicensed employees regularly gave residents alcohol … Read more on The Elkhart Truth

Veteran gets second chance at life, family after Veterans Treatment Court
They had curfews and community service projects, and frequently attended drug or alcohol abuse treatment programs among a number of other daily therapies. "At first, I was ashamed to be there. You're calling yourself a failure and an alcoholic and that … Read more on WHAS 11.com (subscription)

Edgewater Substance Abuse Treatment Center to Close by End of Year
The Alano Club volunteer, who says he is in recovery, noted that the programs and skills taught to those struggling with substance abuse at Recovery Point are carried over and applied at the Alano Club. He said he believes “any and all avenues should … Read more on DNAinfo

Drug and Alcohol Helpline Locates Recovery Programs for Addicts in Chester, PA
Thankfully the new substance abuse helpline for Chester, PA was established as a resource for adolescents who need assistance overcoming a significant drug or alcohol problem. The helpline can be reached at (484) 200-7246 any time day or night for … Read more on Ticker Report

N.J. heroin crisis: Senate, Assembly pass bills that would expand Narcan …
Both the state Assembly and Senate passed bills which would bolster mental health and addiction services for prison inmates, create a report card ranking substance abuse treatment centers for the public and extend immunity to emergency responders and … Read more on NJ.com

Difficulties making diagnoses only add to challenges
There are people who try to take advantage of the subjectivity of pain and the fact it can't be proven by faking it to get prescriptions for narcotics, which they abuse or sell to other drug users. Conversely, doctors can be overly suspicious that … Read more on Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel

NJ Assembly Bill Package to Prevent Prescription Drug & Opioid Abuse Gains …
“This package includes evidence-based health care strategies aimed at both preventing addiction and targeting the myriad physical and emotional issues associated with recovery,” said Herb Conaway, M.D. (D-Burlington), chair of the Assembly Health and … Read more on Bergen Dispatch