Hospital touts new detox as hope for addicts
The hospital has three beds, and the average detox stay is three to five days, after which the patient typically moves either to inpatient or outpatient rehabilitation at a private facility. The hospital detox with Suboxone costs about $ 1,200 a day …
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The Problems with the US Addiction Treatment System
The New York Times has the story, including noting that one of the most popular myths about effective addiction treatment is that you have to go to an addiction or rehab center in order to be treated: “The truth is that most people recover (1 …
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Recovery center coming to Alpine by April
The center offers drug and alcohol addiction rehabilitation to people who stay at the facility for 30 to 90 days. Alpine Mayor Hunt Willoughby said federal laws allow the facility to be in a residential area in part because the patients they serve fall …
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Russian Orthodox Church helps to rehabilitate drug addicts
It is one of 60 drug rehabilitation centers in Russia run by the Russian Orthodox Church. Only 12 people live here – four priests and eight recovering drug addicts from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk and Tomsk. The center tries not to take addicts …
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