Heroin Addiction Treatment and Rehab Announced by Recovery Associates …
Recovery Associates, through its multiple therapeutic tracks, is placing an emphasis upon heroin addiction treatment, helping men and women break free from this harrowing, potent drug. Heroin turns normal, functioning people into walking zombies and …
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Colombia's capital banks on marijuana cure for hard drug addicts
BOGOTA, Colombia — Marijuana has long been accused of being a gateway to deadlier vices. But could cannabis be a swinging door that might also lead people away from hard drugs? That's what this capital city is trying to find out. In coming weeks …
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DSM-5: The End of One-Size-Fits-All Addiction Treatment?
But there may be some surprise, too, as received wisdom about the diagnosis and treatment of addiction is turned on its head. … Since then, a considerable body of research has shown that there are not two distinct types of substance misuse, but only one.
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Gulf Coast Addiction Treatment Now Offers Long-Term Addiction Treatment
Gulf Coast Addiction Treatment Now Offers Long-Term Addiction Treatment. Gulf Coast Addiction Treatment is an alcohol and drug addiction center offering a hands-on approach to recovery with assistance every step of the way. Knowing that a successful …
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Lindsay Lohan denies addiction, loves ecstasy and thinks rehab is pointless
She is stating that she doesn't have any addiction issues that warrant the mandated rehabilitation she was sentenced to. In news reports on May 6 from the NY Daily News and TMZ Lindsay also says that although she has tried or experimented with cocaine …
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CD hits the right key for recovering addicts at Cuan Mhuire rehabilitation centre
A unique project has helped people in a Newry rehab centre battle their addiction by singing – and now the group are releasing their own CD on 10th May. Singers with Sheila Smyth. The 80 men and women in treatment at Cuan Mhuire rehabilitation centre …
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Republicans, Reporters, Drug Addicts and an Orphaned Mural
In financial distress, the press group sold the property in 1973 to the Daytop Village rehabilitation organization. (“Drug Addicts Yield to Persuasion,” if you've ever wondered how it got that name.) Daytop was all about second lives, and it …
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New group to help alcoholics and drug addicts recover
A NEW group made up of recovering drug addicts and alcoholics has been formed to help NHS bosses shape their treatment. It has been created by patients using the Edward Myers substance abuse unit at the Harplands Hospital in Hartshill. The group will …
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Fairfax wellness calendar, May 2-9, 2013
The Washington Post. Al-Anon/Alateen groups For relatives and friends of alcoholics. … Breast-feeding support group Thursday, 10-11 a.m. Inova Fairfax Hospital, Inova Fairfax Women's Center, seventh floor, 3300 Gallows Rd., Falls Church. 703-776-6455.
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Psychiatry's Contested Bible: How the New DSM Treats Addiction
Such diagnostic expansion will occur in many areas, critics say—but the boycott group specifically calls out lowered diagnostic thresholds for alcohol use disorder as one example. And at least one study supports that worry; research in Australia found …
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The No-Help Cycle: Jail Fails Addicts
… of inmates with substance use disorders participated in mutual support/peer counseling and 14.2 percent received drug education; however, such services alone are unlikely to create lasting behavioral changes among those in need of addiction treatment.
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Tom's sobering challenge: 3100 miles across US to help fight addiction
Tom Fitzsimons was a violent drunk. He started drinking heavily at the age of 13 after his father, a drug addict, choked to death on a bottle of whisky. At his lowest point Tom crawled into his children's bedroom and stole money from their piggy banks …
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Italy to help rehabilitate drug addicts – The Peninsula
The Director of Public Health Department at the Supreme Council of Health, Sheikh Dr Mohammed bin Hamad Al Thani, with Italian delegates and other officials at the press conference at the SCH headquarters yesterday. Kammutty VP. by Azmat Haroon …
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New group to help alcoholics and drug addicts recover
A NEW group made up of recovering drug addicts and alcoholics has been formed to help NHS bosses shape their treatment. It has been created by patients using the Edward Myers substance abuse unit at the Harplands Hospital in Hartshill. The group will …
Read more on This is Staffordshire

Orange County support groups
Alcoholics Anonymous — 7 p.m. Sun., 8 p.m. Wed., First Presbyterian Church, corner of Wallkill Avenue and Clinton Street, Montgomery. 457-5383. Alzheimer's caregivers support group — 2-3:30 p.m. Tues., Center for Nursing Care and Rehabilitation, …
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New partnership to help drug addicts and alcoholics
ADDICTS across the borough are to be offered help to recover and rebuild their lives. The Wigan and Leigh Recovery Partnership has been created to help drug addicts and alcoholics as well as improve health and wellbeing. “Research shows investment in …
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SOBA Recovery Center Announces New Holistic Addiction Treatment – PRWeb
SOBA Recovery Center announces their new holistic drug and alcohol treatment options for those suffering from addiction. SOBA Recovery Center (SRC) over the course of ten years has helped thousands of addicts and alcoholics achieve sobriety through …
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