Church boosts growing addiction recovery program
What: Lifeway International's eighth annual "Angels of Hope Gala, A Masquerade Unmasking Addiction," a black-tie masquerade affair benefiting Lifeway's programs for families coping with chemical dependency. When: March 7. Silent auction preview at 6:30 … Read more on Houston Chronicle

New exhibit explores science behind drug use
It highlights the costs and consequences of illegal drugs from manufacturing to trafficking to the way it affects addicts lives. "You'll find artifacts from investigations of the past. You'll have education from our abuse programs and community-related … Read more on WBAL Baltimore

Buffalo Treatment Center for Alcohol & Drug Addiction Announced
A Buffalo treatment center is pleased to announce that programs to help adults and adolescents end their alcohol and drug addiction are now available. Alcohol, cocaine, heroin, and Oxycontin are just a few of the substances that the treatment center … Read more on PR Web (press release)

Treatment Center Finder Expands Their Addiction Hotline
Treatment Center Finder is battling addiction on the front lines seven days a week. To handle this growing problem, the company's addiction hotline has expanded into 6 new states, bringing the total states covered by their services up to 12 states … Read more on Virtual-Strategy Magazine (press release)

Short-lived freedom for 'Waterkloof Two'
Johannesburg – Golden Miles Bhudu, president of the Corrections and Civil Rights Movement speaks with eNCA about what exactly 'special treatment' entails. eNCA … "Two of the "Waterkloof Four" allegedly responsible for smuggling alcohol and having a … Read more on eNCA

Rhode Island makes lifesaving overdose drug easily available
… back a decade, Rich says, when researchers Michelle McKenzie, of Miriam, and Traci C. Green, of Rhode Island Hospital, launched PONI — Preventing Overdose and Naloxone Intervention — a pilot effort to train people at needle-exchange sites, drug … Read more on The Providence Journal

State shouldn't limit the number of licenses
This happens all the time, be it with taxicabs, alcohol licenses, casinos, or, most recently, medical marijuana treatment centers. Massachusetts' 2012 medical marijuana law allows just 35 such dispensaries in the state (after a year, the government has … Read more on Boston Globe

Challenging Alcoholic's Anonymous As The Leading Form Of Addiction Treatment
Alcoholics Anonymous and its related groups for other substances are undeniably the de facto standard for addiction treatment. The AA meeting is so prevalent throughout society that it has become a cliché in cinema and television. To many, it seems … Read more on Opposing Views

Drug addicts should be treated, not quarantined
I'm a recovered alcoholic/ heroin addict who has been lucky enough to have his disease successfully treated in one of our state's few, stressed, state-funded addiction treatment centers. I've since become a clean, sober, reliable and taxpaying worker, … Read more on Foster’s Daily Democrat

Seattle Treatment Center for Alcohol & Drug Addiction Announced
Call (888) 444-9148 for an appointment. Seattle, WA (PRWEB) February 01, 2014. A Seattle treatment center is announcing that it is opening doors for adults and adolescents dealing with alcohol and drug addiction through Drug Addiction Treatment Centers. Read more on Virtual-Strategy Magazine (press release)

MLB Great Darryl Strawberry Opens Addiction Treatment Center
A substance abuse treatment center founded by Major League Baseball star turned Christian minister Darryl Strawberry is now open in Central Florida. "I think it's pretty amazing and awesome to be able to go back and really help people from a place … Read more on Christian Post

Earmarking liquor revenue for treatment rejected
Lawmakers are considering another bill that would spend $ 2 million to create a substance abuse treatment account that would provide grants to new or existing treatment centers. It's scheduled for a committee hearing Friday. Copyright 2014 The … Read more on Billings Gazette

Nonmedical prescription drug users in private vs. public substance abuse …
… two treatment samples. Population tailored HIV interventions, and increased access to HIV testing in both public and private substance treatment centers, appear to be warranted. Author: Catherine L O¿GradyHilary L SurrattSteven P KurtzMaria A Levi … Read more on 7thSpace Interactive (press release)

The Most Overlooked V-Day Films
The 1938-set film centers on Laura Jesson (Celia Johnson), a bored British housewife in a sex-less marriage who meets Alec Harvey (Trevor Howard), a nice, unassuming doctor at a railway station. He's also married with two children, and before long, the … Read more on Daily Beast