Into Action Treatment Center Sponsors the Southeast Florida Chamber of …
Into Action Treatment is a perfect sponsor for this event, since their focus is on healthy choices in life too. They are the world's only Hyannis format Big Book Step Study drug and alcohol rehab center in the world. They help their clients recover …
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Into Action Drug Treatment Center Visits the Arts Garage in Delray Beach, Florida
Into Action Treatment is a small 24-bed coed Florida drug rehab center located in Boynton Beach. Into Action is a very unique center, which focuses on long-term recovery for addicts and alcoholics. Most drug treatment centers in the industry are 28 …
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Lehigh County opens new drug and alcohol center
Until now, Lehigh County residents with drug and alcohol addictions had to leave the county to find an in-patient detoxification and rehabilitation center. From July 2010-June 2011, about 900 county residents did just that, according to Tom Muller, the …
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Health care overhaul adds addiction services
Only about 10 percent of the 23 million Americans with alcohol or drug problems now receive treatment, according to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health. Shame and … With money for treatment limited, slots in rehabilitation centers and …
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Online Alcohol Treatment Program Alternative to Rehabilitation Centers
(Newswire.Net — April 8, 2013) Valencia, CA — With the array of people online world wide, can the internet be trusted for an individual to get the appropriate information necessary to regain a sober lifestyle when it is used for an alcohol treatment …
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Hope By The Sea, California Drug & Alcohol Treatment Center, Exhibits At The …
About Celebrate Hope: Celebrate Hope is Hope by the Sea's Christian Residential Drug Rehab and Alcohol Treatment Program, located in the coastal communities of Orange County Southern California. As an integrated component of one of the very best …
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Lehigh County opens new drug and alcohol center
Lehigh County's new drug and alcohol treatment center is a stone's throw from the county's work release prison — a constant reminder of where addicts are likely to end up if they don't get help. Retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey, former drug czar in the …
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Public clinics expand services to South Florida's homeless
"When I first came here I had not seen a doctor in years," said Kay Evans-Martin, 51, recalling her 1996 visit to what was called "The Little House," a publicly funded clinic where she sought treatment for diabetes and drug and alcohol addiction. "When …
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Local council will examine prescription drug issues
Additionally this week, Reid Hospital announced it will begin working together with local rehabilitation centers to attempt to identify prescription drug abusers and find them help. “The problem often begins when patients start taking prescription …
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Understanding obesity epidemic, food addictions
Solvang has weekly meetings for Food Addicts Anonymous, a program based on the 12-step program for alcohol and drug dependency. Many people have found this program helpful. If you have a friend struggling with alcohol dependency, would you support …
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“Glee” Star Cory Monteith Checks into Rehab
LOS ANGELES (KTLA) — “Glee” star Cory Monteith has checked into rehab for substance abuse, a representative for the actor confirms. monteith “Cory Monteith has voluntarily admitted himself to a treatment facility for substance addiction,” Monteith's …
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Lindsay Lohan To Be Treated For Alcohol & Prescription Drug Abuse While In …
Lindsay Lohan is to be treated for alcohol and prescription drug abuse when she enters into her latest stint of court ordered rehab — which will be her SIXTH attempt at getting sober — even though the 26-year-old troubled actress continues to …
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Paradigm Malibu, California Adolescent and Teen Drug Rehab Facility …
The Paradigm website now joins an elite group of Malibu, CA rehabilitation centers focusing on helping our nation's youth overcome the life-altering obstacles encountered during the early stages of alcoholism and drug addiction. Parents and loved ones …
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Question by No Chance Without a Kiss: Psychiatric ward prefers alcoholic patients to real mentally ill?
Isn’t it easier to treat the alcoholics, they’re pretty “normal” people just trying to stop drinking. Makes life easier for the doctors and nurses, and everybody knows, many people will take the easy option when given the choice, doesn’t matter to them, as long as they cash their pay check at the end of the week.
“There is a “psychiatric ward” and then there’s “rehabilitation centers”. They are two completely different buildings with two completely different doctors with two completely different purposes.”

Not in my local hospital, it has a psychiatric ward, and the beds are mostly taken up by alcoholics.

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Answer by Pam R
People drink to take away the pain of their emotions, so they self medicate themselves this way. But—- there is always an underlying problem on why they do it, and most of the time Dr.’s just want to treat the noticeable problem, which is drinking.

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