Recovering Utahns rally for health care, drug addiction treatment
Vincent, a Heber City resident, told Maline Hairup's story Friday to a crowd of more than 200 people who packed into the Capitol rotunda in support of legislation that would increase Utahns' access to substance abuse and mental illness treatment, as … Read more on Deseret News

Bancroft Hopes To Sell Haddonfield, NJ Property To Drug Treatment Company
“Many of RCA's patients will be good people who just went down a wrong path, but we also must acknowledge the correlation between drug abuse and crime, and that some of the patients will be prone to criminal activity,” he tells KYW Newsradio … Read more on CBS Local

'Unmask Addiction' campaign tackles user misconceptions
Women can be a gateway into drug abuse for men, and there's not an "ethnic bias," she said –– in Somerset County, the vast majority of those seeking treatment are white. "No one is immune," she said. Raffish described the ad campaign, which has four … Read more on Delmarva Daily Times

Harbor Village Detox Extends Treatment for Drug & Alcohol Abuse to Mass. in …
According to Wbur on March 11th, drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers in the state of Mass. are unable to get the drug and alcohol addiction treatment they need because insurance providers will not cover addiction treatment. Some people were … Read more on PR Web (press release)

Amid Rising Concern About Addiction, Universities Focus On Recovery
… hold each other accountable and literally just check in about their week," she says. There is an emphasis on service. The students speak in high schools and in drug treatment facilities. Some even give seminars to emergency room doctors in area … Read more on KDLG

The Irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous
Hospitals, outpatient clinics, and rehab centers use the 12 steps as the basis for treatment. But although few people seem to realize it, there are alternatives, including prescription drugs and therapies that aim to help patients learn to drink in … Read more on The Atlantic

Council approves recommendations for Rehab and Care Center property
Sovereign Health could be one step closer to turning the now empty Rehab & Care Center of Jackson County into a rehab center for drug and alcohol abuse. At its meeting Tuesday night, March 10, the Murphysboro City Council approved by an 9-1 vote a … Read more on Murphysboro American

Reaction swift after treatment center planned on school site
An addiction treatment company is planning to open a rehabilitation center in one of southern New Jersey's wealthy towns, and some locals are not happy about the idea. The 19-acre site in Haddonfield now used as a school for students with intellectual … Read more on News & Observer

Best Drug Rehab Center Awards Issued by 10 Best Rehab
10 Best Rehab, which is a professionally-regarded ranking system, has released its latest listing of the Best Drug Rehab Centers. The organization recently provided details on the top three drug rehab centers nationwide and information on why these … Read more on Virtual-Strategy Magazine (press release)

Couple's son seeks treatment, then wanders into tragedy
A Kearney, Neb., couple, Kim and Ted Jacques, were awarded $ 10.25 million wrongful death suit, the largest settlement against a California rehabilitation center, after their son died in an Orange County residential treatment facility in 2011. Brandon … Read more on La Crosse Tribune

Lt. Gov. hears testimony in regional heroin summit
At Father Martin's Ashley, a private nonprofit, inpatient addiction treatment center in Havre de Grace, Nursing Director Charlotte Meck said nearly one-third of the center's 1,200 patients are admitted for opiate addiction. … reducing maximum … Read more on My Eastern Shore

Human investment: the politics of trying to keep people out of prison
Instead, she received in-patient drug and alcohol treatment, mental health services, a mentor and housing as part of a five-year probation sentence. Since House Bill 3194 passed in 2013, counties across Oregon have invested in an array of programs that … Read more on Street Roots News

Northeast Delta HSA offers gambling addiction treatment
Free group and individual gambling treatment is available in all of the 12 parishes of northeastern Louisiana. Call 1-877-770-STOP or 318-331-8270 to obtain treatment information. Northeast Delta HSA directs the operation of community-based programs to … Read more on Monroe News Star

Low bail in alleged drugged driving fatality in Hanson called 'ridiculous'
Sansone is under house arrest. She must wear an electronic monitoring device, use no drugs or alcohol, submit to random urinalysis and not drive, Middleton said. Sansone's bail amount stunned Langlais' longtime friend Rachel Sanda of Hanson. “That's it? Read more on The Patriot Ledger

Meridian goes upscale with addiction treatment center
But Beauterre paid more than $ 3.5 million last summer to acquire a 180-acre campus that now includes a 61-bed residential addiction treatment and recovery center for adults who abuse or are dependent on alcohol or other drugs. The center also is … Read more on Green Bay Press Gazette

New Designer Drug, Flakka, Plagues Floridas Streets, Similar to Bath Salts
Harbor Village Detox is an inpatient medical detox facility committed to providing the apex of drug and alcohol treatment in South Florida. Their medical addiction experts warn the South Florida community to stay away from synthetic addictive … Read more on KEYC

Model for Ohio
DART refers minor drug offenders to treatment. Some of them will land in Zepf's recovery housing program. Lucas County not only has created a unique treatment unit run by the sheriff's office, but also has developed a growing network of treatment … Read more on Toledo Blade

Problems worsen for two drug treatment centers
Time stopped in October for two drug treatment centers on Boston's Long Island, when the city shut down the bridge that was the only route to their facilities. Both had to abandon their offices on the island. Their clients — poor and trying to kick … Read more on Boston Globe (subscription)

Huntington Mayor Williams Announces Multi Agency Addiction Treatment …
LEAD (Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion) – LEAD is a pre-booking diversion program that allows officers to redirect low-level offenders engaged in drugs or prostitution activity to treatment services instead of jail and prosecution. The city is … Read more on HNN Huntingtonnews.net

Veterans Courts trending in Arizona
With more military men and women returning from the battlefield with physical and mental wounds, courts that cater only to veterans — focusing on rehabilitation rather than punishment — are operating across the country, and Arizona is on the vanguard … Read more on azcentral.com