Posts Tagged ‘behavioral health services’
TreatmentHelp Names 5 Best Value Teen Treatment Centers in New York City
TreatmentHelp Names 5 Best Value Teen Treatment Centers in New York City. TreatmentHelp a company that helps patients find a treatment center to overcome drug addiction names the top 5 treatment centers in New York City. Share on Twitter Share on …
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Bain Capital sees opportunity in methadone clinics
Bain paid $ 58 million to acquire the for-profit centers through CRC Health Corp., a California company it has owned since 2006. CRC Health is the biggest provider of substance abuse treatment and behavioral health services in the country. This foray …
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New Best Drug Rehabilitation Blog Post Looks at how Technology and Media …
Best Drug Rehabilitation, which offers treatment programs and believes that having family close by during a stay in rehab can make a big difference in whether or not the process is successful, is looking at how technology and media affect drug and …
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Bain Capital sees opportunity in methadone clinics
Bain paid $ 58 million to acquire the for-profit centers through CRC Health Corp., a California company it has owned since 2006. CRC Health is the biggest provider of substance abuse treatment and behavioral health services in the country. This foray …
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Barriers Remain Despite Health Law's Push To Expand Access To Substance …
Similarly, the vast majority of the substance abuse treatment in Colorado is located in centers with more than 16 beds, said Arthur Schut, chief executive officer of Denver-based Arapahoe House. There are ongoing conversations among treatment providers …
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Clinical trial testing new treatment for marijuana addiction
Behavioral Health Services of Pickens County is accepting marijuana smokers ages 18-50 for the trial funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), according to Margaret K. Garrett, research liaison for the treatment center. “Generally we are …
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Georgia Medical Cannabis Bill Amended, Heads to House Floor
The University of Mississippi, in 1986, contracted with the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the university's lab to grow, harvest, and process cannabis and to ship it to licensed facilities across the country for research. In the bill …
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Home + School Programs Modestly Slow Teen Prescription Drug Abuse
As a result, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has recommended restricting access to painkillers such as Percocet, Oxycontin, and Vicodin. “These drugs are very available, and highly addictive,” said Max Crowley, Ph.D., an NIH Research Fellow at …
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Prevalence of high school seniors' marijuana use is expected to increase with …
The National Institute on Drug Abuse, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, and Monitoring the Future principal investigators, had no role in analysis, interpretation of results, or in the decision to submit the manuscript for …
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State Stumbles Out of Gate with Mental Health Crisis Centers
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper announces new funding and programs to address mental health treatment issues in Colorado on Dec. 18, 2012. It wasn't in the league of the disastrous unveiling of the federal Affordable Care Act, but Colorado recently got …
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Mental health advocates: Shortage of beds could mean more violence
The incident renewed public attention on a chronic shortage of beds for the mentally ill — an alarming national trend that mental-health advocates say is responsible for a long list of violent acts. Research from the nonprofit Treatment Advocacy …
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War on drugs shifts: Health care law expands coverage for substance abuse …
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services also announced last week that it plans to direct $ 50 million to help regional community health centers establish or expand behavioral health services for mental illness and substance-abuse treatment.
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Support Groups are plentiful in the area to help in many ways
FRIENDS & FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP: Big Stone Gap, Va., Behavioral Health Services, behind Powell Valley High School, hosted by Frontier Health; offers tools, friends and families needs to assist people with addiction, move toward recovery; Tuesdays, 6:30 …
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Gathering gives hope over drug addiction
The annual event, set for 6 p.m. Sunday, features a candle-lighting ceremony in remembrance of people who have lost their lives to drug addiction or are struggling with addiction, and to support families who are struggling with such problems. The event …
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Stigma Of Mental Illness: Families Are Often Embarrassed By Mentally Ill …
Specifically, the research suggests that mental health conditions such as alcoholism and depression are more likely to be accompanied not by familial support but by family shame and embarrassment. The study, which … The study estimates the degree to …
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Question by Paris: Can someone explain the inpatient rehab “level” system?
My boyfriend is in an inpatient rehab facility because of his drug use and threatened suicide. His mom told me he’s a “level 2” and I can’t communicate with him at all until hes a “level 3.” Can someone please explain what this means and what he has to do to be a “level 3” so I can talk to him again? I really miss him 🙁
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Answer by Mattshark
It is a fairly common practice in institutional care to create a level system, although each facility puts its own spin on how it works for that unit. Generally, patients come in at a low level, like a 0 or a 1, and can increase levels depending on several factors. Generally, behavior is an important part of moving up levels, so the patient that attends treatment, stays safe and generally stays out of trouble earns points toward moving up. The other factor is often time. For example, a unit may require you to behave as they want for 24 hours before moving to the next level. Each higher level generally comes with more privileges, so by moving up levels the patient may earn phone calls, unsupervised time, time on the video game, etc. Finally, it is generally practiced in drug treatments in particular that time away from the environment the patient came from is a good idea, so they generally start the lower levels without family or friend contact and then allow it with good behavior and time.
The thing I would want to say to you is that this is probably a good thing, and that although I know it is hard on you, I also know you care about him, and so following the units rules is a good thing all around. Find some way to meet your emotional needs while he is out of contact, such as spending time with your family or friends, take walks, read books, knit, etc. The time will pass quickly enough, and hopefully you will get a boyfriend back who is sober and safe and working on his life in a positive way.
Welcome To Internet Rehab
Welcome to Internet rehab. It's the first inpatient Internet addiction treatment center in the country, located in the Behavioral Health Services unit at Bradford Regional Medical Center in Pennsylvania. Many of us have joked at one time or another …
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SHUTDOWN IMPACT: 13 Days after the federal government closed, affects are …
The Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say they can handle recalls and high-risk foodborne outbreaks, but discovering them will be more difficult because many of the people who investigate outbreaks have been …
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Prostitute takes laptop, psychologist loses license
The charges were reduced to negligent driving, second degree. Charging papers say he underwent inpatient treatment the next month and then an “extensive outpatient treatment program.” The Department of Health decided that after his treatment, he could …
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