NKY addiction treatment center adds staff, rooms
“We added staff, but we've also added group rooms and examination rooms for the doctors, which was part of the plan from the beginning,” said Dr. Joseph Pritchard, chief operating officer of Pinnacle Treatment Centers, which runs the clinic. “This is …
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Drug Rehab Center Wayne Opens Doors for Those Struggling with Addiction
New drug and alcohol rehab facility is offering hope to those with serious drug and alcohol addictions. Wayne, NJ (PRWEB) October 25, 2013. Wayne, NJ is proud to have its own alcohol and drug addiction treatment center serving substance abusers from …
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Los Angeles Treatment Center Opens Its Doors, Giving People Seeking Relief …
Cocaine, heroin, Oxycontin and benzodiazepines are just a few of the drugs that the treatment center helps people put in their past. Alcoholism, a disease that destroys individuals as well as families, is addressed through the substance abuse treatment …
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Watch Krokodil Addicts Discuss the Flesh-Eating Drug's Horrifying Effects
As use of the flesh-eating drug in the U.S. is becoming more well-known in states like Utah, Arizona, Oklahoma, and Illinois, are there sufficient rehab programs for Krokodil addicts? Use of the drug “would limit treatment programs,” Pete McLenighan, …
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Coy Mathis: One Child's Fight To Change Gender
Children are packing the few U.S. clinics like Olson's, which are at the forefront of a new therapeutic approach, in which children may live as their preferred gender, complete with appropriate clothing, pronouns and often a new name. This so-called …
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Arizona Drug Rehab Centers for Strengthening the Whole Person
Addiction is not a short-term disorder, so it cannot be effectively treated with short-term solutions. Long-term treatments help you through the most difficult obstacles life throws at you through methods that work. Leading Arizona drug rehab …
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Substance abuse is the repeated use of drugs such as cocaine, heroin and prescription drugs. There are many reasons that contribute to such addictions, such as ineffective parenting, poor social coping skills, association with deviant peer group and peer pressure.

There are various symptoms too, such as forgetfulness, aggressiveness, irritability and getting drunk on a regular basis that can be seen frequently in an individual. If you notice any of the symptoms, it is imperative to approach a drug rehab center otherwise these can have deadly consequences if not treated at the right time. Treating the drug or alcohol abuse at an early stage is the best way to get rid of this habit.

Essentially treatment is a behavior modification therapy that helps drugs and alcohol addicts to come out of this habit and lead a healthy and stress free life. The drug prevention programs made available by the rehab center are offered after analyzing the person’s characteristics and knowing the type of substance being consumed.

The substance abuse treatment programs are carried out by specially trained staff members who are certified or licensed as substance abuse counselors. These substance abuse counselors or specialists identify the individual’s negative behavioral traits and take necessary steps with a positive approach.

Substance abuse counseling plays a crucial role in the psychological recovery of the patient. With this counseling session, addicts are motivated to develop basic problem-solving skills, achieve a balanced lifestyle, improve relationships, find a higher meaning in life and eventually lead a productive and happy life.

There are residential programs, outpatient programs and executive rehab programs also made available to patients by specialists helping in the recovery process. Partial hospitalization and methadone clinics are other amenities provided to individual suffering from alcohol or drug abuse. To ensure long time recovery, there are residential substance abuse programs made available by drug rehab centers. Get more information.

Drug Rehab Center Mansfield Offers New Treatments for Prescription Addiction
Drug Rehab Center Mansfield Offers New Treatments for Prescription Addiction. Drug Rehab Center Mansfield has recently begun offering new treatment programs targeting addiction to prescription drugs. Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on …
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hCGTreatments / Diet Doc Hormone Diets & Weight Loss Plans Reveal …
Diet Doc's hormone diet treatments target stored fat and flush it out of the body while actively suppressing the appetite to help patients lose weight and end cookie addictions which, according to a new study, are similar to drug addictions. Forward …
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Drug Rehab Center Grove City Offers New Addiction Treatment Options
New substance abuse treatment programs are available at Drug Rehab Center Grove City to help even more recovering addicts. Share on Twitter Share on … Some of the more traditional treatment methods include group and private counseling sessions.
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Heroin: Treating Kitsap's addiction | Herald series
“We've seen a tremendous rise with heroin,” said Karen Augustine, clinical operations manager for the Olalla Guest Lodge, a non-profit substance abuse treatment facility. “I believe much of it starts with old pills of Oxycontin. That seems to be a …
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Spirituality and addiction recovery can be an emotional topic in some circles. Part of the dictionary definition for spiritual is insubstantial. There was a time in my life when I would have agreed with that part of the definition. Someone would say the word spirituality and I would hear God.

Since my concept of God was distorted I had no use for spirituality. When I first attended 12 step meetings almost thirty years ago members spoke of the spiritual part of the fellowship; which led me to believe there was a separate part that dealt with all thing spiritual. Well that was fine with me; I had enough to do staying totally abstinent. Anyone that stays in recovery can tell you, your thinking starts to change.

You become more accepting of ideas that just months earlier you would have argued against. Spirituality came to be the quality of the relationships that were important to me. It was a few years still before I understood I was a spiritual being and would grow in a spiritually positive of negative direction. When the positive growth outweighed the negative I was able to accept God as my higher power.

Years earlier when I attended a drug rehab center I fought robustly against esoterically flavored concepts. Today I accept that inside of me there exists a spiritual life. This life, once awakened overwhelms life itself and overtakes what life had been. This awareness is not so much something we possess but a quality of our being that defies explanation. It is with this truth that I move forward in my recovery. When I stumble I have only to look with-in, not to myself but that which exists in my being.