Homeless shelter director suggests closing it down
Ukiah may lose its homeless shelter this summer as its overseers consider at a meeting today how to stop bleeding money and better help those who need housing, food, mental health services and substance abuse counseling. Jacqueline Williams, executive … Read more on Ukiah Daily Journal

Medicaid rates pinch treatment centers
But a stopgap solution for the detox centers will leave those providing other kinds of inpatient and outpatient drug treatment around the state to wait for a longer-term study of rates. Some of those are similarly struggling under payment rates that … Read more on TheNewsTribune.com

Heroin Epidemic Rampant in NJ; New Facility Answers Public's Need
DBT is an evidenced based treatment, proven effective with Bipolar Personality Disorder, self harm, suicidal ideation, co-dependency, substance abuse, and disordered eating (bingeing, purging, restricting). Arcadia Wellness offers the only … Read more on Packet Online

Dangerous Minds / Insane System: Part 3, Can't stop him
It says that he was lined up for substance abuse counseling and monthly appointments with a psychiatrist and a therapist, and that he “expressed an extreme need for treatment.” Kenyatta, his militant alter ego, was alive and well. …. If a patient … Read more on The Virginian-Pilot