forum gives hope for recovery to addicts
He worked for Community Solutions in Warren, the Ohio Department of Youth Services, Valley Counseling, and Compass, and is now the executive director of First Step Recovery, an alcohol and drug treatment center. The center has 16 beds for detox and 24 … Read more on Youngstown Vindicator

Montgomery County drug overdose taskforce recommends prevention through …
According to the preliminary report presented to commissioners Chairman Josh Shapiro and Vice Chairwoman Valerie Arkoosh March 2, there were 134 drug-related deaths in 2013 in Montgomery County. More specifically the county saw 46 heroin deaths in … Read more on Montgomery Newspapers

Farmington nonprofit to provide alcohol addiction services
FARMINGTON, N.M. — A Farmington nonprofit has obtained tribal and federal contracts to provide a new residential treatment service for alcohol addiction. The Daily Times (http://goo.gl/mSyRAS ) reports that Four Winds Recovery Center secured the … Read more on Macon Telegraph (blog)

Lots of drug-related news the day addiction letter ran
My letter, “Addiction is a powerful dragon on a person's back,” was printed on Feb. 24. The same day, on the front page, was an article about the Maine Recovery Center for alcohol and drug abuse, “These people deserve to be treated,” and on page A4, … Read more on Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel

Lawsuit: Jail Let Teenage Girl Die From Drug Overdose, Staff Covered It Up
At the time, there was a warrant out for Gonzales because she had violated her probation by escaping from a rehabilitation center, the Albuquerque Journal reported. As a result, police officers came to the hospital. The lawsuit claims that the hospital … Read more on Huffington Post

Drug Treatment Moguls Lived in Luxury on Medicaid Cash, Say Prosecutors
Prosecutors say the father and son who ran one of New York's largest drug treatment programs committed fraud and spent taxpayer millions on luxury cars and vacation homes while their patients lived amid rats and bedbugs, but authorities fear shutting … Read more on NBCNews.com

Teaching Friends And Family How To Reverse A Drug Overdose
Graham-Farmer knew what to do that day because, as of 2012, the whole staff at the residential drug treatment program where she works (Samaritan Village in Richmond Hill, Queens) has been trained to use Narcan, and to keep a rescue kit containing two … Read more on WFAE

What drug treatment in Delaware looks like
Additionally, the state's health department has requested more than $ 4 million in next year's budget to support programs aimed at expanding the bed space and access to treatment centers statewide as well as curbing teenage prescription drug use. Read more on The News Journal

Philly is 'mecca for people in recovery'
Ford has spent 20 years as a community liaison for the city's Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual Disability Services on 8th Street near Market, where he gets uninsured and under-insured drug and alcohol addicts into recovery programs. Read more on Philly.com

Riverview Hospital Will Host New Rehab Program For Addiction, Mental Health
Client services will include programs for ongoing support, assessment, crisis intervention, co-ordinated psychiatric and medical treatment, life-and-social skills, drug-and-alcohol recovery, jobs skills, education and peer support, said Lake. "By … Read more on Huffington Post Canada

How Ebola survivor can help cure Ebola
Mapp Biopharmaceutical, an American pharmaceutical company based in San Diego, California, is developing a drug treatment called ZMapp, which is a compound of three antibodies which have each been shown to be effective in treating Ebola infections. Read more on Capitalberg

It's going to be terrible
#I recently read in the U-T that in San Diego, a record 190 people died from methamphetamine use last year. Heroin was the leading cause of drug-related deaths for people aged 25 to 34, and prescription-drug overdoses were the primary cause of … Read more on San Diego Reader

'For us, the journey just starts to begin': Carmel Valley coach shares story …
She became homeless, lived in her car, did a “rehab tour” of San Diego and spent six months in county jail. … Ian was in his fourth rehab when he died; the drug had gripped his brain and made him feel that he needed it, the way he needed air to breathe. Read more on U-T San Diego

Fighting addiction with another drug
Last year, heroin was the leading reason people ages 18 to 29 sought treatment for substance abuse, far surpassing admissions for alcohol, methamphetamine or prescription drugs. The number of young people admitted for heroin treatment has more than … Read more on The Columbian

Sheriff's Office: Pontiac man dies of suspected drug overdose hours before …
A 32-year-old Pontiac man is believed to have died of a drug overdose late Wednesday, Nov. 19, just hours before he was to enter a substance abuse rehabilitation clinic, according to the Oakland County Sheriff's Office. The man's aunt and uncle found … Read more on The Oakland Press

Providers say state rates harming addiction treatment
BOSTON (SHNS) – Addiction treatment industry officials skewered proposed reimbursement rates from the Patrick administration as “completely inadequate” and “capricious” during a hearing Tuesday before lawmakers who are reviewing the rate-setting … Read more on wwlp.com

Social worker charged with smoking crack while driving on I-65 with child in car
HOOVER, Alabama – A manager of a Birmingham substance abuse treatment center faces charges after authorities said she was driving down I-65 smoking a crack pipe with a young child in her car. Bari Joy Williams, 44, of Gardendale, is charged with … Read more on AL.com

Community unites in battle against drug abuse
MANITOWOC – Unless you've invited him for dinner, you don't want Manitowoc County Coroner Curtis Green showing up at your front door. All too often he has to break the bad news that a loved one has died from a drug overdose or accident involving drugs. Read more on Herald Times Reporter

Drug addiction
PICTURE a heroin addict. “A bum sitting under a bridge with a needle in his arm, robbing houses to feed his addiction,” is what many people might imagine, believes Cynthia Scudo. That image may have been halfway accurate when heroin first ravaged … Read more on The Economist

WTF! Zayn Malik Accused of Drug Abuse
Remember that one time when The Today Show host Matt Lauer asked the boys of One Direction if Zayn Malik had a substance abuse problem? On LIVE television? And the guys reactions were priceless? And Directioners around the world came together to … Read more on Hollywire