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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Capital Health Care: E-cig ban takes effect; soda ban receives support
ON DRINK SIZE –- The city's health department received a boost from a coalition of hospitals and minority advocates who filed an amicus brief in support of the city's ban on large sugary drinks, saying “the problem it addresses is perhaps the gravest …
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Protecting Vermont's Children, Part Two: Assessing Neglect
Walcott says many of the families DCF works with whose members have substance abuse problems fall into this "risk of harm" category. Madison Akin, a counselor at … “Students will come into our office and they'll be talking about drug use," Akin says …
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Poverty series: Lebanon fares well compared to other counties, but there's …
Drug addiction took its toll. Neither had jobs, and they were evicted from their apartment. That's when they took a long, hard look at things and eliminated drugs from their lives. They joined Palmyra Circles in September 2012, and soon started entry …
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California Governor Jerry Brown Grants Dozens Of Drug Pardons
As Brown's pardon notes, Guest is now the coordinator of the drug rehabilitation program he participated in following his conviction. "I've been waiting 14 years for this call … this just blows me away," Guest told the Los Angeles Times. "Good people …
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Bill seeking background checks for rehab clinic owners advances
Alexander Ferdman ran a taxpayer-funded drug rehabilitation clinic in California's San Fernando Valley for years, despite a felony conviction for organized crime. State officials didn't seem to know his criminal background until an investigation by The …
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Treatment center hosts open house
Hotel California by the Sea, a self-proclaimed luxury drug and alcohol treatment center based in Newport Beach, hosted an open house Thursday evening to celebrate the unveiling of its new outpatient services center in Costa Mesa. More than 80 community …
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Doctors, medical staff on drugs put patients at risk
Last year, New York's Supreme Court ruled that a hospital was not liable for the overdose death of a physician who, after returning from drug rehabilitation, was given operating room duty, where she had ready access to the propofol that killed her …
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Advocates raise doubts about Florida child welfare reforms
Watkins said that while child-protective investigators are fact-finders, and case managers are “scorekeepers on how parents and their kids are doing,” it is the treatment programs — from mental health to substance abuse — that result in meaningful …
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Will Hill likely 'done' with Giants as safety faces another drug-related …
Paul Sancya/AP Giants safety Will Hill has been on the run from drug trouble for years, but after his latest violation of the league's drug policy he may have run himself right out of the NFL. After he endured his second … Then last season he was …
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Child Welfare Effort Avoids Taking Kids from Home by Giving them One
To be eligible, all families had to have been chronically homeless, have a head of household who was substance abusing or mentally ill, and have children in foster care or at risk of placement. Half the heads of household also reported that their own …
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Heroin addicts face barriers to treatment
NEW YORK (AP) — As the ranks of heroin users rise, increasing numbers of addicts are looking for help but are failing to find it — because there are no beds in packed facilities, treatment is hugely expensive and insurance companies won't pay for …
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Addiction treatment specialists say Illinois funding is too low
SPRINGFIELD — While lawmakers look for solutions to Illinois' heroin problem, addiction specialists say the state is not providing them with enough funding. The state's rehabilitation centers say they have had to drastically cut programming due to …
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Trouble Is a Gift: A Story of Addiction, Recovery & Hope
“But finally, there I was alone in this apartment, sitting in a chair, staring at the radiator waiting for the little guy to crawl out from behind it. Knowing the bottle was going to be empty in another minute. Wondering how I'm going to get money to …
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Even casual marijuana use can alter the brain, new study shows
Animal studies that suggest when scientists give rats Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the mind-altering ingredient in marijuana, the rats' brain structures change and form many new connections. Scientists think that when users are developing addictions …
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by Nina J. G.

Marijuana Is Less Addictive Than Chocolate
NEW YORK (MainStreet) — Claiming that marijuana is less addictive than chocolate, Pennsylvania State Senator Daylin Leach (D-Montgomery County), also a Pennsylvania congressional candidate, has met strong opposition from addiction and drug policy …
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