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

The cost of addiction on Cape Cod
According to the report, a combined $ 56.7 million is spent on the Cape each year on arresting, prosecuting, and charging abusers of just the two most categories of substances, alcohol and opioids (including heroin). Treatment and recovery costs … Read more on Wicked Local Bourne

Residents have to be sober for 30 days before they are accepted
The Eagle's Nest Recovery House, a new long-term addiction-recovery facility for adult men, is up and running on Kensington Avenue on the former Cafaro Hospital campus on Youngstown's North Side. Operated by Flying High Inc, which took possession of … Read more on Youngstown Vindicator

Spirituality vs. Science? A Rebuttal to The Atlantic Article, 'The …
I can remember the day in my recovery where I woke up to realize that I no longer thought about using drugs and alcohol. It was not a problem any longer. This is a big moment for someone who has really struggled around addiction. The irony is that had … Read more on Huffington Post

Opiate use on rise
FRS Counseling, then known as Family Recovery Services, was formed in 1982 to provide primarily drug and alcohol abuse treatment. Adray, who joined FRS in 1997, said that in the 1980s and most of the '90s FRS provided mainly alcohol treatment services … Read more on Hillsboro Times Gazette

ALONE IN THE DARK: Probation emphasis changes from punishment to self-help
Drug-related as well as alcohol-related offenses keep its Probation Department busy throughout the year. Probation officers verify probationers' residences, make scheduled visits to their homes and consult with them in private meetings at the Wareham … Read more on Wicked Local Wareham

Mass. prison system fails troubled women
What Conley didn't address was the supposed topic of his panel: the disproportionately high numbers of people incarcerated in Massachusetts with mental illness and substance abuse, especially among women. In a way, the forum was hijacked by … At … Read more on Boston Globe (subscription)

District court news 3-15
… 180 days in jail held in abeyance with credit for two days, $ 975 fines and costs, one year probation, may not use or possess drugs or alcohol, subject to random drug and alcohol screening, take medications as prescribed, attend counseling as … Read more on Midland Daily News

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

Teenage victim of axe attack that killed three members of her family out of …
A teenage girl seriously injured in a brutal axe attack in South Africa that killed three members of a Perth family has been moved to a rehabilitation centre. Sixteen-year-old Marli van Breda suffered brain injuries and a severed jugular in an attack … Read more on 9news.com.au

Anger brewing over North Vancouver group home
… reschedule after attendance swelled well above the Parkgate Community Centre's meeting room capacity. Turning Point Recovery Society is hoping to build a nine-bed home for men recovering from drug and alcohol addiction on a vacant lot on Windridge … Read more on North Shore News

Burton Addiction Centre model to be mirrored at new Cannock recovery house
THE Burton Addiction Centre is to offer its support and expertise in the development of a new recovery house. Staffordshire County Council recognises the Burton centre as one of the best rehabilitation services in the country, and wants to duplicate … Read more on Burton Mail