Confronting addiction: New England states fight drug abuse in different ways
Maggie Hassan noted the growing drug problem in her State of the State address. But while Shumlin and Hassan see improving treatment and halting addiction before it begins as the way forward, LePage offered a different strategy for combating drug abuse …
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Jason Wahler on Addiction: Philip Seymour Hoffman's Death 'Brought Me Right …
Jason Wahler is the latest celeb to open up about his battle with substance abuse and addiction in the wake of Philip Seymour Hoffman's death. On Thursday, the former The Hills star, 27, wrote a personal essay for The Huffington Post, in which he …
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Substance abuse counselor convicted of murder in Torrance pedestrian's death
Los Angeles >> A substance abuse counselor who drove two miles through Torrance with a dying man on her windshield was convicted Tuesday of second-degree murder, drunken driving and hit-and-run charges. Sherri Lynn Wilkins showed no response as …
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Affordable Care Act expands coverage for addiction treatment
Drug treatment experts and public health officials said they see an increase in heroin use that is accompanying a rise in prescription opioid abuse by young people. A report released by the L.A. Department of Public Health Monday said drug overdose is …
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Paul Dilonno: On the frontlines of addiction
Editor's note: This commentary is by Paul Dilonno, the manager of substance abuse counseling at United Counseling Service in Bennington. More than a decade ago, opiate use hit the state of Vermont with a vengeance. We've witnessed heroin addiction, …
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Vermont gets M grant for drug treatment program
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Gov. Peter Shumlin and Health Commissioner Harry Chen announced on Friday that Vermont will get a $ 10 million federal grant to expand early intervention and treatment programs for young adults at risk of alcohol and drug abuse …
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Doc: My state in addiction stranglehold
(CNN) — Early this week, I worked on my addiction treatment center's detoxification unit. I treated teenagers and young adults, pregnant women and medical professionals. I saw older pain patients who, having lost control over their prescriptions …
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Alcohol & Drug Rehab Kenosha Launches Center to Battle Substance Abuse …
Eugene, OR (PRWEB) February 06, 2014. A Kenosha alcohol and drug rehab center is announcing that it is opening its doors to help adults and adolescents fight back against their alcohol and drug addiction through Drug Addiction Treatment Centers.
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The medical practitioners in the rehab centers find it too hard to make understand the adolescent. The therapist find addressing an adolescent’s is the much struggle factor when the substance abuse therapies are used for the understanding emotional, developmental, physical, psychological, familial, social and cultural factors pushed the patients for addiction. The medical rehab centers have developed inpatient substance abuse and followed the inpatient treatment for substance abuse treatment as the evidence-based along with the 12 Step-based programs to eradicate incorporates clinical, medical, educational and experiential therapies by improving the and decreasing the addiction plan.

The counselors and the medical therapist offer great scenarios to the patients between 16 or 17 years old occupied in the addiction. The counseling is provided round-the-clock and first 20 initial minutes are always provided for free. The 24 hour nursing care and the evidence based techniques help to recognize the patient their mental conditions and addictions urges.

The medical resources that are occupied such as doctors, counselors, medical representatives have been veteran and known specialists in the industry. The extensive experience and medical practitioners provided for the alcohol and drug rehab centers have made the rehab centers much more effective. The effective treatment provided on evidence-based solutions, and medicines through the inpatient treatment for substance abuse and addiction.

This helps the addicted person to find the contemporary solutions without much tedious medical therapies. These therapies are trusted easily by the adult people due to witnessing other cure people from all types of addiction in less time. When the treatments are accepted with pleasure then the effect of the therapies get doubled for recoveries. The rehab centers mainly work on two modes, physical therapies and mental therapies. There are numerous methods that bring the physical fitness and the evidence based method help to boost the patient recovery chances.

Also the substance based theories such as inpatient treatment for substance abuse. With the passing time it has been noticed by the medical institutes providing rehab centers that substance abuse education, intervention and counseling works efficiently then any other treatment. Patients find their moral boost to the highest where they fight back for the addiction themselves.

Therefore, inpatient treatment for substance abuse when merged with the evidence treatment therapies and evidence based medicines for the patients. Quick recoveries are completely based on the therapies mentioned above. So, patients need help can opt for the 24 hours a day, seven days a week open rehab centers in the country.

Announcement of drug abuse screening grant swerves into politics
The $ 10 million five-year grant from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration will help Vermont incorporate substance use screening and intervention into primary care for all Vermonters. “I view this as a kick-start for …
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Record number of pensioners seeking help for drug addictions
Statistics obtained from Public Health England show 1,569 men and 495 women over the age of 60 sought help for substance abuse in 2013 – a total of 2,064 people. In contrast, only 940 pensioners underwent treatment for drug addiction in 2009: 641 men …
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Selena Gomez: Justin Bieber, drug and alcohol addiction drove me to rehab
Selena Gomez spent two weeks in rehab in January to treat an addiction to alcohol, pot and the prescription sleep medication Ambien, TMZ reported. Gomez's camp blamed Selena's drug and alcohol addiction on her ex-boyfriend, Justin Bieber, who was …
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Demi Lovato Talks Addiction and "Amazing" Friend Selena Gomez After Her …
Demi Lovato is breaking her silence on the news that her BFF Selena Gomez secrety went to rehab for two weeks last month. Lovato, who has battled substance abuse and eating disorder issues in the past, has nothing but kind words for Gomez. "Selena is …
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Deprogramming China's Youth
Welcome to the Internet Addiction Treatment Center in Daxing, a suburb of Beijing, China. Established in 2004, its aim is to deprogram Chinese teenagers—mostly boys—who suffer from an “Internet addiction.” China was one of the first countries to …
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