Rise in heroin use leads to more patients at treatment centers
Dr. Bernard Gottschalk , medical director of Wilmington Treatment Center , said opiate addicts have an 85 percent relapse rate. But there is hope, said Kenny House , vice president of clinical services at Coastal Horizons, which treats substance abuse … Read more on Insurance News Net (press release)

Is substance abuse coverage as equal as required?
Insurance plans that cover substance abuse treatment must provide the same level of care and cost sharing as they do for other medical issues, but treatment centers say disagreement over what this means leaves many alcoholics and drug addicts without … Read more on Journal and Courier

World Renowned Addiction Expert Johnny The Healer Offers A New Powerful …
Other outdated drug rehabilitation and treatment centers which treat patients as just another addict who has to claim to be incurable and then take more pharmaceutical drugs that are highly addictive and very dangerous with side effects sometimes worse … Read more on PR Web (press release)

Compass: Don't cut residential treatment for addicts
We hope our legislators will reconsider the cuts to the state Behavioral Health grants that fund residential addiction treatment. Alaska has startlingly high rates of addiction and cutting funding for residential substance abuse treatment when Alaska … Read more on Anchorage Daily News