Drug Rehabilitation Centers Brace For Budget Cuts
The Gateway Foundation is one of many rehabilitation programs that falls under a facility that is meant to assist in the treatment of substance abuse. The operation has been around nearly 20 years and currently assists just over 300 people with … Read more on WICS-TV

Amid Rising Concern About Addiction, Universities Focus On Recovery
The center is largely run by the students themselves. … For UT students like Zach Edgerton, who became addicted to drugs and alcohol in high school and is among those stepping forward in recovery, the results have been heartening and life-changing. Read more on NPR

Residents Worried About Proposed Rehab
In Hazle Township, some residents are saying `no` to a proposed drug and alcohol rehab center, that would be next to their homes. “My backyard, I have a firepit that I use in the summertime. My wife is scared of the people they are going to recruit her … Read more on wnep.com

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

Russell Brand joins campaign to save Woodford Green rehab centre 1NE
Russell Brand with Fiona Snowball and Chris Fallon, both helped to recovery by 1NE in the Broadway, Woodford Green. Archant. Russell Brand has joined a campaign to save a rehab centre set up by a mother and daughter after addiction destroyed their … Read more on Ilford Recorder 24

64 Sabah kids in drug rehab
They are now back in school after three months of counselling, but the boys are still monitored by the cure and care rehabilitation centre. Five other children, aged 9 to 14, were also tested positive for drugs during a recent special operation to … Read more on Daily Express

Scientology rehab centre at the Central Coast back on the agenda despite …
Yarramalong resident Ron Lee is hoping for a similar outcome to a recent case in Warburton, Victoria, where locals won a battle against a Narconon rehabilitation centre. “I don't know what's going to happen,” Mr Lee said. “I can't see the church giving up. Read more on The Daily Telegraph

Hope after heroin addiction
"When I was in the coma, I was treated by some of the best physicians in the area for the acute symptoms of a drug overdose," he said. "But when I woke up … no one told me I had a chronic, progressive problem. No one said, `You should probably go to … Read more on RedEye Chicago

Court: New California law Prop 47 could threaten drug rehab program
Jenkins celebrated two years of sobriety Thursday, just a few weeks after she and another recovering addict tearfully graduated drug court with the help of dozens of counseling sessions and much soul searching. Both addicts celebrated in front of … Read more on OCRegister

Radical Islam and 2 Other Threats to Our Nation's Future
Just look over the horizon to California where even ultra liberal Gov. Jerry Brown said, "How many people can get stoned and still have a great state or a great nation?" Pot friendly Los … by legitimizing even more people inhaling toxic fumes? Jack … Read more on Charisma News

UC Davis Scientists Describe Novel Drug Mechanism That Fights Brain Cancer
The investigators performed a series of studies utilizing high-content analysis, which quantifies changes in living cells in response to a drug treatment. The lab focused on the effects of a patented small molecule previously developed at UC Davis … Read more on Newswise (press release)

City of Malibu Sues State, Demands Passages Rehab Shut Down
“[Tuesday] morning, the city is going to file a lawsuit against the State of California, and in particular, Jennifer Kent, who is the Director of California Health Services, who's responsible for issuing licenses to alcohol and drug rehab programs … Read more on Malibu Times

Lancaster runs out of drug rehab money early in fiscal year as addiction rates …
About a half million of the commission's budget was used for rehab placement. Outpatient and detox treatments remain open, but long-term, inpatient treatment is "where a lot of heroin addicts would benefit." Rehab is most effective when a patient is at … Read more on PennLive.com

Troubled Connecticut veterans get treatment, not jail
A judge agreed to allow him to attend a VA treatment program in lieu of jail. The man participated in an inpatient program early last year at the VA hospital in West Haven, and is now receiving treatment as an outpatient. He was homeless and the VA … Read more on Middletown Press

Alcohol and leadership: A denominational sampling
“We do work with them in terms of finding a treatment facility for inpatient treatment, if that's required, and then follow-up care with them afterwards,” he said. “We try to be as open as possible with the congregations involved, particularly if we're … Read more on Brnow