Soberistas social network helping women with alcohol problems beat the bottle
And it's wonderful when someone reaches that eureka moment, realising that being alcohol-free is not something to be afraid of – it's something to enjoy. Soberistas, social network, helping, women, alcohol problems, bottle, Kate Baily The community …
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Alcohol and drug use can progress into abuse and even addiction so insidiously that sometimes people do not realize that it has become a problem for them and those around them. The following self-assessment tests can help you determine whether or not …
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ABCD: After Breast Cancer Diagnosis provides free one-to-one telephone support to people affected by breast cancer. Call 977-1780 or go to abcdbreastcancersupport.org. ACOA: Support groups for adult children of alcoholics meet at 7 p.m. Tuesdays at …
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Mass. reports 185 heroin deaths since November 1
Officials agree there is a need for more beds at rehabilitation clinics. Governor Deval Patrick has … “The old infrastructure we have for alcoholics, or marijuana or cocaine abusers, isn't what's needed for heroin addiction.” Evan M. Allen of the …
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Health Calendar
Support groups. ACOA: Support groups for adult children of alcoholics meet at 7 p.m. Tuesdays at Luther Memorial Church, 2840 S. 84th St., downstairs; and 7 p.m. Fridays at Mount Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, 12012 W. North Ave., upstairs. Call …
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Morristown's Market Street Mission celebrates 125 years
Jonathan Cale and Willie Clark, who are going through the life rehabilitation program, sort baskets as they works in the Market Street Mission Thrift Store at 25 George Street. Market Street Mission celebrates its 125th anniversary in March. / Karen …
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Cancer Treatment Centers of America announces move to Florida
Cancer Treatment Centers of America, on an afternoon when Chicago was enduring a temperature of 2 degrees above zero and Boca Raton, Fla., was enjoying 78-degree weather, announced it is moving its national headquarters from the Chicago area to …
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Florida lawmaker urges Walker officials to ditch new sex offender director
Yet Gaetz is completely baffled by the decision by officials in the Walker administration's to hire Daniel Montaldi as "evaluation director" at the Sand Ridge Secure Treatment Center, a state facility for sex predators. Montaldi will oversee those who …
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Recovering pelican feeding Theodore Oiled Bird Rehab Center
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Drug Rehab Center Planned for Red Hook
While the facility's price range is still being determined, owners compared it to centers like Cirque Lodge in Utah and the Betty Ford Center in California, which charges between $ 33,000 and $ 66,750 for a one-month to three-month inpatient treatment.
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Fitness centers: A place to repair, rehab torn knees
It's a sound like no other. “It's usually a pop, and you feel a noise going up through the bones,” said Dr. Peter Looby. It's the snapping of the ACL, the knee injury that sends athletes to the sidelines and then to doctors for repair. If all goes well …
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Alcohol & Drug Rehab London Canada Launches Program to Support …
A London, Canada alcohol and drug rehab center is announcing that it has started a new program aimed at helping adolescents break their abuse of alcohol through new services available at Drug Addiction Treatment Centers. According to a report from the …
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Closing rehab centers spells disaster for people with disabilities
The result was the creation of community rehabilitation centers (CRCs) designed to provide job training, special education and day services for these most vulnerable members of our society. Today, CRCs serve tens of thousands of adults with severe …
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Inside the doors of Friendship House, Nashville's fabled 202, helping those in …
A tattoo-sleeved man slinks into the row of battered theater-style seats pushed against the wall. Turn to page 100 of Twelve Steps and … "Society did not accept this disease … it was very shame-based," explains Susan B., a former 202 board member …
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The many faces of Rock Bay Landing: shelter is refuge for homeless
About 7 p.m. on a typical night in the Rock Bay Landing shelter, a man with a tattoo under his right eye rolls a marijuana cigarette while a petite woman, sitting with her hands clasped over her knees, stares into the middle of the room with a blank …
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ATF uses rogue tactics in storefront stings across nation
Aaron Key wasn't sure he wanted a tattoo on his neck. Especially one of a giant squid … And agents in Albuquerque, N.M., gave a brain-damaged drug addict with little knowledge of weapons a "tutorial" on machine guns, hoping he could find them one …
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Opiate addiction support group coming to Cape
WEST YARMOUTH — Joanne Peterson needed help finding treatment for her pill-addicted son. So in 2004 she founded a small support group for parents to seek out resources for her son, who is now in long-term recovery for opiate addiction.
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Marinette lawmaker confronts daughter's heroin addiction, seeks new legislation
"You face it, head on," says John Nygren, co-chair of the powerful Joint Finance Committee. There are no sure things about Cassie Nygren, whether she'll kick heroin once and for all or succumb to the all-too-familiar cycle of addiction, recovery and …
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First step to addiction recovery has to come from addict
Just as crack cocaine nearly took away a generation decades ago, heroin is threatening another generation. Drug abuse can take over the lives of people, but they don't have to live like that. September is National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery …
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