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Health Law Could Overwhelm Addiction Services

Health law could overwhelm addiction services With money for treatment limited, slots in rehabilitation centers and hospitals are scarce. In Minnesota, which has one of the higher substance abuse rates in the nation — 11.6 percent of the population — there are slightly more than 3,900 inpatient … Read more on The Southern Afghan rehab centers aim to get women, children — and even Taliban — off of … Afghanistan produces 90 percent of the world's raw opium, and drug addiction ...

Health Law Could Overwhelm Addiction Services

Health law could overwhelm addiction services Already, the prospect of more paying patients has prompted private equity firms to increase their investments in addiction treatment companies, according to a market research firm. And families fighting the affliction are beginning to consider a new … Read more on Quad City Times Cuomo spikes drug rehab center A proposed drug rehab center in Sheepshead Bay has gone up in smoke. The Cuomo administration denied a plan by First Steps to Recovery to ...

Health Law Could Overwhelm Addiction Services

Health law could overwhelm addiction services In a major break with the past, 4 million people with drug and alcohol problems — from homeless drug addicts to working moms who drink too much — suddenly will become eligible for insurance coverage under the new health care overhaul. The number of … Read more on Lebanon Express Waisting time The five-day program at this NSW coastal oasis offers the health retreat staples: weight loss, a sugar, gluten, coffee and dairy-free detox and a fitness ...

Health Law Could Overwhelm Addiction Services

Health law could overwhelm addiction services CHICAGO (AP) — It has been six decades since doctors concluded that addiction was a disease that could be treated, but today the condition still dwells on the fringes of the medical community. Only 1 cent of every health care dollar in the United … Read more on AZFamily Danny Bland A: They made some calls and found an Arizona treatment center, Valley Hope. My dad was a career Marine who had never even smoked pot. And although I'd been a fairly ...

A Reluctant Bethlehem Planning Commission Approves Atiyeh's Hospital Plan

A reluctant Bethlehem Planning Commission approves Atiyeh's hospital plan Planning Commission Chairman James Fiorentino tried to get Atiyeh's legal counsel, Blake Marles, to define exactly what was being proposed, fearful that the end product might constitute something more like the psychiatric hospital and detoxification … Read more on Allentown Morning Call Courtney Cox, Lousiana Woman, Arrested After Allegedly Swimming Nude In … … neck-high waters in Glen Rock, Pa. It took 8 firefighters to rescue the woman, who allegedly had a blood alcohol level more than twice the legal limit for driving. … He was taken to an Evansville, Ind. hospital to detoxify. Instead of staying put … Read more on Huffington Post Read more... ...

BC Drunk Driving Roadside Prohibition Quashed in Court

BC Drunk Driving Roadside Prohibition Quashed In Court VANCOUVER — A man who registered two warning readings on a roadside screening device has had his immediate, three-day driving ban thrown out by a judge who ruled there was no evidence alcohol affected his ability to drive. But B.C.'s superintendent of … Read more on Huffington Post Canada Mural offers recovery by art She lost custody of her two children by her second marriage because she couldn't pay her bills as she careened from using drugs to using alcohol because she wasn't taking drugs to using alcohol and back again. “I'd drink two or three cases of beer a … Read more on Marion Star Read more... ...

CALO Attachment Disorder Residential Treatment Center – a Place to Slow Down and Heal

  CALO Attachment Disorder Residential Treatment Center – A Place To Slow Down and Heal – Dr. Ken Huey, Founder of CALO, discusses how the residential treatment center is designed to be a place for students dealing with attachment disorders to slo…   CenterPointe Hospital celebrates a decade of growth “Today we have more than 100 practitioners including psychiatrists, internal medicine physicians, psychologists, nurse practitioners, social workers and counselors on staff,” said Connie McDonald, marketing manager for CenterPointe Hospital. In 2003 … Read more on Newsmagazinenetwork Read more... ...