Commentary: Navy Treatment and AA Saved My Life — and Career

Commentary: Navy treatment and AA saved my life — and career

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Through my command's drug and alcohol team and with the support of my executive officer (I still owe that man my life and career), I went to treatment at the Naval Alcohol Rehabilitation Center at Naval Air Station, Miramar, Calif. During six weeks of …
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AA works and it's free, yet Pentagon snubs the substance abuse program

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An active-duty Navy captain said he had a similar experience in 1986 when he went through treatment at the Naval Alcohol Rehabilitation Center at what was then Naval Air Station Miramar, which required attending AA meetings. That introduction to AA was …
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TRICARE substance abuse treatment falls short, experts say

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By sending troops diagnosed with drug and alcohol addiction to 20-day treatment programs at civilian rehabilitation centers, the Defense Department is taking a Band-Aid approach to dealing with a problem of epidemic proportions, psychiatrists, former …
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