Camden sets hearing on zoning change that would allow alcohol treatment …
MacLean would then operate a 12-bed inpatient alcohol rehab center where patients would spend a month in treatment. Supporters say the proposal is simply to allow a rehabilitation center to be what is known as a special exception in the coastal …
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Ex-addict: I loved gymnastics, but loved heroin more
Alcoholism was a powerful component in my family, but I felt focusing all my attention on practicing gymnastics would protect me from going down that road, fearing it would destroy my athletic potential. Unfortunately, the … Even though I had been …
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Local church offers help in recovery
When people think of addictions, many times the first thing that comes to mind is alcohol or drugs, but in all actuality, there are many other forms of addictions that are not even considered. Twelve step recovery programs are not always for those who …
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Why We Can't Save Addicts, Alcoholics, or Anyone but Ourselves
A dear friend of mine practiced as an addictions counselor for 30 years. If you hang around that long, you will find yourself treating three generations of folks, sometimes within the same family. I vividly recall being with her when she ran into a …
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Ford spotlight raising addiction awareness
"So people have to be willing to speak up, and say: 'You know what, I'm an alcoholic, I'm a recovering drug addict. It's true, I wasn't well at the time, but because of the help that I got … I'm back on my feet and doing well, and I'm helping donate …
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The Cost of Addiction in Maine
In that same State report, dollars invested in substance abuse prevention, treatment, and recovery is just 3.3% of total costs. The State Office for Substance Abuse cites studies that show for every $ 1 invested in treatment, there is $ 7 cost offsets …
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Bluefield Recovery offers UNC, Duke students drug-, alcohol-free housing
Becky Georgi and her husband Jeff Georgi are the managers of Bluefield Recovery Center, a new residential substance abuse recovery center that will serve Duke and UNC college students. The center opened in July 2013 and expects to start moving in …
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Long Beach Substance Abuse Foundation offers hope to addicts
Sixteen years later, at the age of 55, he is the marketing director of the Substance Abuse Foundation, a place where he met his wife, Kathy Romo, executive director of the 25-year-old nonprofit recovery center located at 3125 E. Seventh St. “If you …
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Treatment will continue for former alcohol and drug agency's clients
ADDS, which operated inpatient halfway house and outpatient alcohol and drug treatment services for adults and teens at five locations in Erie County, lost its operating license Tuesday. Four other treatment agencies confirmed they accepted the …
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Rep. Radel heads back to work next week, after rehab
After completing almost a month of inpatient rehab treatment in Florida for alcoholism, Radel announced he would not resign his seat in the House. The congressman issued a statement on Thursday saying, "I look forward to getting back to work next week …
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Camden Planning Board recommends Select Board consider change for alcohol …
MacLean would then operate a 12-bed inpatient alcohol rehab center where patients would spend a month in treatment. Supporters say the proposal is simply to allow a rehabilitation center to be what is known as a special exception in the coastal …
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The Cost of Addiction in Maine
Despite the facts that science and research have proven addiction is a disease ever since the American Medical Association declared so in 1955, the shame and stigma of addiction and recovery continues. In 2014, recent policy changes are going to deny …
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How to Save a Life leads addicts to recovery resources
In 2007, on June 21 — her son's birthday — Hottenstein replaced the scholarship fund with How To Save a Life, a foundation dedicated to helping place addicts in recovery facilities, mental health clinics, halfway houses and rehabilitation centers.
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Brother Benno's recovery leader has a success story of her own
Jan Roberts, who once recovered from addiction in a Brother Benno's sober living house, now oversees the organization's two transitional homes for women in Oceanside. — Tom Pfingsten. Share Photo. ? · ?; ?. Jan Roberts, who once recovered from …
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Domestic Violence, Addiction & How We Perpetuate Them
There is a world of difference between reading the words, “wife beater” or “partner abuse” as opposed to seeing the phrase, “perpetrator of domestic assault. … Jim LaPierre LCSW CCS is a Recovery Ally, mental health therapist and addictions counselor.
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Tuesday, December 24, 2013: Student discipline, addiction treatment center
I am writing in support of the small zoning change that will allow McLean Hospital to operate a recovery center for about a dozen clients at the Fox Hill property in Camden. I respectfully ask that the Camden Planning Board recommend this change and …
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Center to help female addicts
HUNTINGTON — Addiction recovery is a battle. Always. But it can be an even more savage one for mothers. Some recovery programs require mothers to part from their children for months at a time. Often, women won't even consider that as an option. "Women …
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