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Report: Zac Efron Rehab Stint for Cocaine Addiction?
… was sentenced to 90 days there. She's been six times total since she first checked into a drug rehab program in January, 2007. Demi Lovato … In April 2004, Kelly admitted herself into rehab to treat an addiction to painkillers. In 2005, she had a …
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Pennsylvania hospital to open country's first inpatient treatment program for
9 at the Behavioral Health Services at Bradford Regional Medical Center. The program was organized by experts in the field and cognitive specialists with backgrounds in treating more familiar addictions like drug and alcohol abuse. "[Internet addiction …
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Lamar Odom enters rehab for drug and alcohol addiction
Lamar Odom's recent DUI might have been the straw that broke the camel's back. The former Los Angeles Clippers baller reportedly checked in to a rehab center to deal with his drug and alcohol addiction. "He realized he needs help," a source told People …
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California Lawmakers Order Audit of Taxpayer-Funded Drug Rehab Program
Ted Lieu, a Los Angeles County Democrat, and Assemblyman Adam Gray, chairman of the Joint Legislative Audit Committee and a Merced Democrat, jointly called for the review of the Medi-Cal-funded program for the poor. “Ineffective oversight and fraud in …
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De La Hoya to miss Mayweather fight because of rehab
De La Hoya, who has battled alcohol and drug addiction in the past, has checked himself into a treatment center. In a statement, De La Hoya … I will not be at the fight to cheer Canelo to victory since I have voluntarily admitted myself to a …
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Addicted To The Internet? Go To Rehab, Seriously…
Here's something new and perhaps even creative – a cure for internet addiction. I am completely serious. Now there is a treatment center right here in the U.S. America's first hospital-based "internet addiction" inpatient rehab program opens this week …
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De La Hoya to miss Mayweather fight because of rehab
De La Hoya, who has battled alcohol and drug addiction in the past, has checked himself into a treatment center. In a statement, De La Hoya said, "Canelo Alvarez and I have big fights coming up this weekend. His is in the ring and mine in treatment. I …
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Four beds ready to treat Internet addicts
That sentiment could change on Monday, when the country's first inpatient treatment program for Internet addiction opens at Bradford Regional Medical Center in Pennsylvania. "I've been studying Internet addiction since 1994," says Dr. Kimberly Young, …
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Inside an outpatient rehab clinic, allegations of kickbacks and shoddy care
Inside an outpatient rehab clinic, allegations of kickbacks and shoddy care Lillian Imbert outside New York Service Network, the outpatient drug treatment clinic in Brooklyn, N.Y., where she says she was forced to go to avoid being evicted from her …
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Four beds ready to treat Internet addicts
(CNN) — High above the frozen Potomac River in the nation's capitol, Ryan Van Cleave stood on the Arlington Memorial Bridge, contemplating his life. It was New Year's Eve 2007, and the married father of two asked himself, "Is this really something I'm …
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Nation's First Inpatient Treatment Center For Internet Addiction Launches In Pa.
BRADFORD, Pa. (CBS) – The nation's first inpatient program for Internet addiction has launched in Pennsylvania. The hospital-based treatment program, led by renowned Internet-addiction expert and Psy.D. Kimberly Young, will be run by Bradford Regional …
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Wilderness Treatment Center marks 30 years
Wilderness Treatment Center was the first of what is now a popular rehab method, Brekke said, a marriage of the 12-step addiction recovery process and building self-esteem through surviving and thriving in nature. The young men here spend the first 30 …
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Funding cuts to drug treatment centers mean addicts get turned away
DURHAM — Jeff Stillers' addiction to alcohol has landed him in emergency rooms, clinics and halfway houses; 20 times he's gone through about a week of detox at the state's expense since he lost his home, wife and kids 13 years ago to his alcoholism.
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Pennsylvania hospital to open country's first inpatient treatment program for
9 at the Behavioral Health Services at Bradford Regional Medical Center. The program was organized by experts in the field and cognitive specialists with backgrounds in treating more familiar addictions like drug and alcohol abuse. "[Internet addiction …
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Four beds ready to treat Internet addicts
(CNN) — High above the frozen Potomac River in the nation's capitol, Ryan Van Cleave stood on the Arlington Memorial Bridge, contemplating his life. It was New Year's Eve 2007, and the married father of two asked himself, "Is this really something I'm …
Read more on CNN

Addicted to the Internet? There's a Hospital-based Treatment for That
Does internet addiction warrant full-fledged in-patient rehab— or are there better ways to manage your Angry Birds and email-checking obsessions? America's first hospital-based “internet addiction” rehab program opened over Labor Day weekend at …
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Hospital-based Internet addiction center to open
As growing numbers of us check our email compulsively, play computer games obsessively and have more friends on Facebook than in real life, the first hospital-based Internet addiction treatment center is preparing to open. An inpatient program at the …
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