Centers' leader going strong
Members of The Centers' board next week will interview Cowart, along with a handful of other applicants, who want the job Cowart has temporarily filled since Powell unexpectedly died in March. Cowart, 38, first worked at The Centers from 2002 to 2006, … Read more on Ocala

Experts Ready At Action Bakersfield Drug And Alcohol Treatment Center
For anyone seeking help with alcohol or drug addiction in the Bakersfield-Kern County area, the friendly, but no-nonsense drug and alcohol rehab specialists at the Action Family Counseling residential rehab center in Bakersfield are just a phone call away. Read more on KHTS Radio

Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Berwick thinks he has a healthy chance
… executive experience and health-care knowledge gained over decades as CEO of the worldwide, nonprofit Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and as President Barack Obama's 17-month appointee as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid chief as main … Read more on The Sun

FORCED TO CHANGE: Program helping mother fight addiction
Every day she visited the Kern County Hispanic Commission, an outpatient drug treatment program teaching Matrix programs as part of Kern County's new push to keep repeat drug offenders like McCutcheon out of jail. She was scared to be free, nervous to … Read more on Bakersfield Californian