Effective Addiction Treatment
Find out if you will receive therapy for any underlying condition, like depression, or a social problem that could sabotage recovery. The National Institute on Drug Abuse states in its Principles of Drug Addiction Treatment, “To be effective, treatment …
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Source: Dr. Drew went 'above and beyond' trying to help Mindy McCready
According to the National Institutes of Health: Principles of Drug Addiction Treatment, 40 to 60 percent of drug-addicted patients suffer a relapse following rehabilitation treatment. However, not everyone agrees that “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew …
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Conservatives are leading on prison reform
However, conservative criminal justice policy today is charting a new course that is more consistent with the traditional conservative principles of limited government and personal responsibility. In conservative … Research shows that strategies such …
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Affording Addiction Help (1 Letter)
To the Editor: Re “Picking Addiction Help” (Personal Health, Feb. 12): My 19-year-old son is currently in a Connecticut residential program for dual-diagnosis drug rehab modeled on Hazelden. Despite having good employer-provided family health coverage, …
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Shelter residents get help with addictions
On Thursday, Amarillo Recovery from Alcohol and Drugs began an intensive outpatient drug and alcohol treatment program that is geared toward the area's homeless shelter residents who are dealing with addiction. The free program, the first of its kind …
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Former CAPA teacher talks about heroin addiction, helping others
A former Pittsburgh Public Schools science teacher who got hooked on heroin and helped rob a bank in 2011 talked to Channel 11's sister station WTOV Tuesday about her fight with addiction and how she's trying to help others. Philicia Barbieri said the …
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Picking Addiction Help
“Treatment is not a prerequisite to surviving addiction.” This bold statement opens the treatment chapter in a helpful new book, “Now What? An Insider's Guide to Addiction and Recovery,” by William Cope Moyers, a man who nonetheless needed “four …
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Annie's Mailbox: Addict gets little support from parents
My parents will never understand addiction, but I wish they would try a little harder. I have repeatedly asked them to come to one NA meeting. I wrote them a three-page letter explaining the importance of my going to meetings and how valuable their …
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Haven of support in addiction
`Mayor of Derry Colr Kevin Campbell with members of Foyle Haven at the launch of their community floating support service. Included are seated, Kerry Anthony and Elaine Carlin. Standing are from left Liam Hegarty, CG, Ronnie Logue and Avril McAllister.
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10 News Investigators: Is the Narconon drug treatment program a Scientology …
"The Narconon drug rehabilitation program is a life skills model, founded in 1996 by heroin addict William Benitez in Arizona State Prison, based on his reading works by L. Ron Hubbard, humanitarian also known for Dianetics and Scientology. From its …
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Effective Addiction Treatment
Of the 23.5 million teenagers and adults addicted to alcohol or drugs, only about 1 in 10 gets treatment, which too often fails to keep them drug-free. Many of these programs fail to use proven methods to deal with the factors that underlie addiction …
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Effective Addiction Treatment
Of the 23.5 million teenagers and adults addicted to alcohol or drugs, only about 1 in 10 gets treatment, which too often fails to keep them drug-free. Many of these programs fail to use proven methods to deal with the factors that underlie addiction …
Read more on New York Times (blog)

Residential treatment funded for young prescription drug addicts
The state is seeking bids for 25 residential beds that would offer treatment for the first time to adults ages 18-25 battling prescription drug or opiate addiction on Long Island. Arlene Gonzalez-Sanchez, commissioner of the State Office of Alcoholism …
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More Mike Deeson Stories
CLEARWATER, Florida — Whether it is cocaine, pills, or heroin, drug addiction is a major problem affecting every community in the country. One of the biggest worldwide treatment clinics, Narconon, has its east coast headquarters in Clearwater. However …
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Effective Addiction Treatment
A groundbreaking report published last year by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University concluded that “the vast majority of people in need of addiction treatment do not receive anything that approximates …
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Residential treatment funded for young prescription drug addicts
The state is seeking bids for 25 residential beds that would offer treatment for the first time to adults ages 18-25 battling prescription drug or opiate addiction on Long Island. Arlene Gonzalez-Sanchez, commissioner of the State Office of Alcoholism …
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