Youth Drug and Alcohol Rehab Centers Push for Higher Reimbursement Rates
May 2, 2013 – In the 28 years that De Paul Treatment Services has provided youth alcohol and drug treatment services, it's only seen a minor increase in reimbursement rates from the state. Now its future, along with the future of other youth treatment …
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Judge OKs Lindsay Lohan's Rehab at Betty Ford Center
But Lohan, who had flown overnight from New York after making a last- minute decision to enroll in a Newport Beach treatment center instead of the already-approved one on Long Island, dallied at a Fry's electronics before eventually showing up at the …
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Saudi opens luxury rehab center for Qaeda militants
Saudi Arabia is hoping to wean jailed Al-Qaeda militants off religious extremism with counseling, spa treatments and plenty of exercise at a luxury rehabilitation center in Riyadh. In between sessions with counselors and talks on religion, prisoners …
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Where's Lindsay Lohan? Not rehab, apparently
Her last-minute switch, reportedly because she could not smoke in the New York facility, left White fuming on Thursday because he said he had not had time to vet the Morningside Recovery Center. Officials at the Department of Alcohol and Drug programs …
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' North Woods Law ' star calls Kennebunk home
Spahr also followed up on a episode that featured a wolf-hybrid dog that game wardens seized while working with the DEA on a drug bust in Limington. The wolf-dog named Ace stayed briefly with the Spahrs before going to a rehabilitation facility in York.
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Activist Raymond Cohen a strong voice for people with disabilities
“Ray had a vision about Abilities,” said Marcia Rioux, director of the York Institute for Health Research. “He realized long before others that we needed a media arm for the disability movement.” Articles in the magazine ranged from dolphin-assisted …
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Lac Courte Oreilles Band struggling with widespread prescription drug abuse
The Lac Courte Oreilles Health Center in Sawyer County is at the center of the prescription drug abuse storm on the Lac Courte Oreilles reservation. A veteran doctor was terminated in January, and the health center's medical director's contract wasn't …
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Cory Monteith, 'Glee' star, completes rehab for drug abuse after admitting …
The “Glee” star “voluntarily admitted himself to a treatment facility for substance addiction,” his rep told People in late March. Monteith, 30, and his supportive girlfriend Lea Michele, 29, were spotted at Los Angeles International Airport on Friday …
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BYU researchers design new pill bottle aimed at reducing drug abuse
“The fact that there isn't a solution to the drug overdose epidemic really drove us,” said Dallin Swiss, a mechanical engineering senior on the team, in a BYU press release. “This provides a missing piece to that national dilemma, and so it matters …
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Calling 911 Shouldn't Lead to Jail
PARENTS of drug-addicted kids learn the hard way that when we think things can't get worse, they do. … But research suggests that, among those who witness an overdose, the most common reason people don't call for help is the fear of being arrested.
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TN welfare drug test plan faces hurdles
The most recent report, dated April 1, outlines the possibility of using the Drug Abuse Screening Test evaluating tool to show reasonable cause among program applicants. … based Highlander Research and Education Center. "It doesn't take stigmas away, …
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Lindsay Lohan grilled on addiction, rehab as the star stops by 'Late Show with …
“Yes, thank you,” Lohan replied, wearing a floral dress with bare arms and her long hair pulled back. “Now, do you have addiction problems?” Letterman continued, still grilling the actress, who's been to residential rehab five times before. “Now you …
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PPACA could overwhelm addiction treatment providers
Only 1 cent of every health care dollar in the United States goes toward addiction, and few alcoholics and drug addicts receive treatment. One huge barrier, according to many experts, has been a lack of health insurance. That barrier is supposed to …
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Northbound Treatment Services Presents Addiction Lecture – PRWeb
Northbound Treatment Services, the popular addiction treatment experts, is presenting a powerful new addiction lecture series by Dr. Kevin McCauley. The lecture, entitled “Is Addiction Really A Disease?” is set to inform attendees of the latest …
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Recovering pelican feeding Theodore Oiled Bird Rehab Center
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NYC Rehab Center Consortium CentersHealthcare.com Spotlights Social …
The group, available at http://www.CentersHealthcare.com, is comprised of both nursing homes and rehab centers in New York. "Certain professions are more accurately deemed vocations rather than mere day-jobs; the demands placed on a social worker in …
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Centers for Specialty Care Group Provides On-Site Dialysis at Many of Its NYC …
Centers for Specialty Care Group is a consortium of NYC rehab centers that provides its long and short term patients with many on-site medical treatments. By Centers for Specialty Care Group. NEW YORK, April 12, 2013 — /PRNewswire/ — Centers for …
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