Addiction Update: Tiananmen recovery
When I summoned the audacity and arrogance to develop a new recovery fellowship, I did it because I needed something different. But I could have sat home and continued researching new ways to think about addiction and recovery, continued exploring …
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Health Notes: Health and wellness news in the area
The fair will include health screenings and information on topics such as Driving and Dementia, Sugar Blues and Nutrition. Persons who are insured or …. Bridgeport Hospital's Ahlbin Rehabilitation Centers will host a free Stroke Support Group meeting …
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Now There's A Hospital-Based Treatment Facility for Internet Addicts
The program is run by Kimberly Young, a psychologist who began studying Internet addiction in 1994 after watching her friend's marriage disintegrate while her husband spent 50 hours a week in AOL chat rooms. The divorce made Young curious about how …
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Journey Healing Centers Now Contracted with Blue Cross Blue Shield of …
Journey Healing Centers addiction treatment centers is now contracted with Blue Cross coverage in Arizona for their Intensive Outpatient clients in their Scottsdale centers. Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Google+ Share on LinkedIn Email a …
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Advice on Addiction in Boomers, Part 1
Readers have been sending questions about baby boomers and addiction to Dr. Barbara Krantz, an addiction expert at the Hanley Center, a nonprofit addiction recovery center in West Palm Beach, Fla. Enlarge This Image. Dr. Barbara Krantz, medical …
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Now There's A Hospital-Based Treatment Facility for Internet Addicts
In that sense, Bradford's Internet Addiction Treatment and Recovery Program is the first of its kind—and it's already garnering press attention. Young and her colleagues treat Internet addiction like a real physical and mental affliction, on a par …
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The Center for Internet and Technology Addiction (CITA) Launches New Patient …
The Center for Internet and Technology Addition (CITA) has a long record of successfully treating these disorders and offers 2-day and 5-day Intensive programs in the areas of Computer, Internet, and Video Game Addiction, Online Pornography and Sexual …
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PA Hospital First To Open Inpatient Treatment Program For Addiction To The …
But that won't stop hospitals from profiting off of the concept, now that the very first inpatient program to treat internet addiction has been launched at Bradford Regional Medical Center in Pennsylvania. The voluntary, 10-day program is set to open …
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Recovering addicts convene in Phila.
The organization, widely praised by area drug prevention and treatment experts, is patterned after Alcoholics Anonymous and similarly based on a 12-step recovery program. NA says it hosts 60,000 meetings a week in 129 countries, and meetings will be …
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Now There's A Hospital-Based Treatment Facility for Internet Addicts
In that sense, Bradford's Internet Addiction Treatment and Recovery Program is the first of its kind—and it's already garnering press attention. Young and her colleagues treat Internet addiction like a real physical and mental affliction, on a par …
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Stanford humanities course empowers recovering addicts
Taught by Stanford humanities scholars, courses about philosophy, the arts and history have become an integral part of the addiction recovery process for the women of Hope House. By Corrie Goldman The Humanities at … Francone, who initiated the Hope …
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Vivitrol and Families Matter Help Three Residents with Addiction
VILLAS – For every drug-related arrest or overdose in Cape May County, there is a story of redemption, of recovery. Three area residents sat down with the Herald in July … Each person featured in this article was a part of the Vivitrol Pilot Program …
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Physical therapy offers a safe and effective alternative to drugs in treating …
Other medications such as oxycodone (Percocet when combined with acetominophen) and hydrocodone (Vicodin when combined with acetominophen) also have various serious side effects and are highly addictive. A February 2008 report published in the …
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Vivitrol and Families Matter Help Three Residents with Addiction
Each person featured in this article was a part of the Vivitrol Pilot Program, a Driving Under the Influence Initiative from the New Jersey Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services. The six-month study has had very positive … At first Sue's …
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Help & support
Visit www.nhal-anon.org. n CELEBRATE RECOVERY: A Christ-centered 12-step recovery program based on the Scripture and open to the public, will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursdays at Bethany Church, 500 Breakfast Hill Road, Greenland. … n ARE YOU …
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Recovery Month event focuses on vets, families
The Minnesota Department of Human Services marked the beginning of Recovery Month this September with an event celebrating Minnesotans in recovery from addiction and mental health disorders, particularly veterans and service members. The kick-off event …
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