Life of Purpose: Substance abuse treatment center for college students
Life of Purpose Treatment aims to serve as a bridge between a person's issues with addiction and substance abuse and a successful experience as a student. It is believed to be the only program of its kind on a college campus in the United States … Read more on WPTV.com

Treatment centers, insurance work to agree on heroin care
When someone wants treatment to end a heroin addiction, insurance shouldn't hold him back. That's the perspective of addiction treatment professionals who say the biggest issue they face with insurance companies is disagreements over whether a patient … Read more on Chicago Daily Herald

Treating heroin addiction
Community mental health centers are experts at addiction treatment and therapy and are ready to work collaboratively with the Department of Corrections to provide needed treatment and wrap around services to reduce the recidivism and relapse rate and … Read more on The Courier-Journal

Crownsville detox center at risk of closing
Hope House in Crownsville helps, on average, about 1,500 drug and alcohol addicts get treatment, but because of a drop in Medicaid funding, that treatment is in serious jeopardy. Earlier this week, Anne Arundel County Executive Steve Schuh declared a … Read more on WBAL Baltimore

Punjab Politics: Millions wasted on Dharnas, while De-addiction Centers lie …
Out of the two Govt run centers, one is totally useless as in the absence of doctors there no addict could be admitted the staff told us that conditions had been like this for quite a while now. Whereas the main de-addiction centers in civil hospital … Read more on SikhSiyasat.Net

We Are Treating Heroin Addiction Wrong Even Though We Know Better …
Why heroin addiction treatment is stuck in a “scientific dark age.” Standard treatment for heroin addicts is not all that different today than it was decades ago: willpower over chemistry. It's a 12-step program. It's a rigid 30-day drug detox center … Read more on The Ocean Signal

Lauded for a Hard Look at Tough Topic
Phoenix House is one of the largest not-for-profit substance-abuse treatment centers in the U.S.. Through her time at HBO, Ms. Nevins has shepherded such projects as “Addiction,” a 14-part series that was given out as DVDs to guests such as Michael … Read more on Wall Street Journal

Recreation Briefs: SCaD's Skating Spectacular to Be CHaD Fundraiser
In addition to her distance-running successes, Hagley is a doctor of physical therapy and the rehabilitation manager at Valley Regional Hospital in Claremont. The talk is scheduled to start at 7 p.m., is free of charge and open to the public. The UVRC … Read more on Valley News

Training helps social workers, counselors give teens skills to abstain from …
Nine participants will be trained as lead supervisors and certified to be able to train others, said Dr. Catherine Martin, the principal investigator for the program known as Adolescent Health and Recovery Treatment and Training. … From coping with … Read more on Lexington Herald Leader

Vermont: Progress made in opiate fight
Tyler Nolan poses at a mall in Burlington, Vt., Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2014. Nolan, 23, has been in treatment for 10 months for heroin addiction. A year after Vermont grabbed national headlines when Gov. Peter Shumlin made fighting heroin and opiate abuse a … Read more on Belleville News Democrat

"Large" Drug Bust Made in Sussex Traffic Stop
MILTON, Del.- It is a bust that is being called "substantial," "significant" and "large" by drug enforcement agents. In a traffic stop in Milton, Delaware State Police seized almost 15,000 bags of heroin. The driver of the vehicle was 32-year old Davon … Read more on WBOC TV 16

Ex-Sonic Swift arrested, suspected in burglary attempt
King County prosecutors described Swift, 28, as a heavily armed heroin addict who admitted to helping his drug dealer-turned-roommate collect a drug debt. That man, 54-year-old Trygve Bjorkstam, is currently facing federal drug and gun charges. Read more on KOMO News

Brit Music: Pete Doherty gets out of rehab
For the last few months, Pete Doherty of the Libertines has been in rehab in Thailand and it seems like, for the first time in about a decade, it looks like his heroin addiction is losing his grip on him. And now, he's out and … Pete Doherty's had a … Read more on Anglotopia.net

Public housing is dead. Long live public housing!
After decades of underfunding, neglect and political abuse, America's public housing stock is a vestige of its former self, the remnants increasingly forced to rely on private developers to survive. In December, Congress tripled the size of the … Read more on Al Jazeera America

Seeking help: Egg Harbor Township facility offers another option for substance …
Of 23.2 million people needing treatment for drug or alcohol use in 2007, only 2.4 million received treatment at a hospital, drug or alcohol rehabilitation or mental health center, the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's … Read more on Press of Atlantic City

Hospital visits due to substance abuse up 63 per cent in Vancouver area
A recent study from Columbia University found that more than 70 per cent of people who have a chronic condition such as hypertension are getting appropriate treatment, while only ten per cent of people with chronic substance abuse problems receive … Read more on Vancouver Sun

Christie: The war on drugs has failed, treat NJ heroin addiction as an illness
To combat New Jersey's growing heroin and opioid crisis, Gov. Chris Christie says the state needs to embrace a dramatically different approach to substance abuse, but cautioned that he will not write a blank check to get it there. In his time as … Read more on NJ.com

Inadequate Drug-Addiction Treatment Available in NJ has Many Roots
They range from the lack of inpatient beds, availability of outpatient services, inconsistent modes of addiction treatment (or lack of agreement whether to use methadone or other substances to tame heroin addiction), and a general a lack of funds and … Read more on NJ Spotlight

Gaudenzia addiction treatment facility coming to Bristol Twp.
A new drug and alcohol treatment center will open in the new next few months in Bristol Township. Gaudenzia Lower Bucks will open on the grounds of Lower Bucks Hospital, possibly in December or January, officials said. An open house with tours will be … Read more on Bucks County Courier Times

Self-help: Addicts buying Suboxone on street
In a plea deal, Evers was sentenced to a secured treatment facility, STAR in Scioto County, instead of prison. He was sent for a second time in 2010, but was back before the judge within a year. "When I was at STAR, I never treated my addiction. You do … Read more on Zanesville Times Recorder

Addiction problem is 'solvable'
Drugs and the way addiction is battled have evolved, according to Highland County Common Pleas Court Judge Rocky Coss who, along with Family Recovery Services (FRS) Director Joe Adray, spoke at Thursday's meeting of the Greenfield Rotary Club. Read more on Hillsboro Times Gazette