Insurance companies pushed to cover addiction treatment
Three years after Corey's first detox treatment, when he was 21, he overdosed while living with his grandmother in Connecticut in September 2008. “It was an absolute heartbreak to our family, but I can now look back at it as our blessing in disguise …
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Troubled families: 'You need to do something bad before you get support'
When you meet Lisa and her children in their quiet end-of-terrace home it is hard to believe that a couple of years ago they were costing the state so much, but Cusack's report outlining the mother's heroin, crack and alcohol problems, petty offending …
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Annals of Medicine: Remembering Walter
Voluntary alcohol detoxification is different from treatment for acute alcohol withdrawal. Alcohol withdrawal can be fatal. Acute alcohol withdrawal typically occurs 12 to 24 hours after an alcoholic stops drinking abruptly. Alcohol withdrawal is a …
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