New inpatient addiction treatment center launched by Community Hospital Long …
The Partial Hospitalization/Intensive Outpatient Program provides daily intensive therapy for patients who are suffering from both addiction and a mental illness. This occurrence of a dual diagnosis is high. According to the National Alliance on Mental … Read more on Orange County Breeze

Update for the practicing pathologist: The International Consultation On …
In 1999, the WHO, maintaining papilloma and PUNLMP as diagnostic categories, re-appropriated the labels of Grade I, Grade II, and Grade III urothelial carcinoma,9 but used them to label lesions defined by criteria different from those of the 1973 WHO … Read more on Nature.com

Investigational HCV Combo Delivers in Differing Groups
The researchers conducting the so-called C-SWIFT trial also looked at 6-week and 8-week courses of treatment for harder-to-cure cirrhotic genotype 1 HCV patients. … moderator Michael Fried, MD, director of the University of North Carolina Liver … Read more on MedPage Today

For Returning Veterans Suffering From Both Mental Health and Substance …
The Welcome Back Veterans Dual Diagnosis Program integrates both mental health treatment with substance abuse services to veterans and their families free of charge. … Established in 2012 as the first of its kind in New York City, the Steven and … Read more on Newswise (press release)

NY couple: Son almost died from Botox treatment
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has not approved Botox to treat spasms in kids, so the treatment is called "off-label," the Drakes said. After the first injections failed, the doctor recommended a second, larger dose. Lori Drake recalled Thursday … Read more on BurlingtonFreePress.com

NY / Region|Following Her Mother's Example, in Addiction and Then in Sobriety
She was first hired to be a delivery driver but was later taught butchering skills. The company closed in 2009, she said. During that stretch, Ms. Gurley's mother entered an inpatient drug rehabilitation program in New York City. Once her mother became … Read more on New York Times

Father, son who ran NY drug treatment centers face fraud charges
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A father and son who ran New York City substance abuse clinics were accused on Wednesday of stealing tax money meant to treat addicts and using it to fund a lavish lifestyle that included luxury cars. Alan Brand and his son, Jason … Read more on Yahoo News

Questions raised about turning sheriff's office into treatment center
In addition, the move would allow McKinley Hall, a drug addiction treatment and rehabilitation facility in Springfield, to establish Clark County's only women's residential drug treatment center. It would also result in the sheriff's detectives and … Read more on Springfield News Sun

Ex-addict: Region is facing a drug crisis
What the region desperately needs, she said, is a 14-month program to help heroin and opiate addicts recover. “Chenango County doesn't really have a lot to offering the way of treatment,” she said, adding that the county's drug and alcohol treatment … Read more on Oneonta Daily Star

Father, son who ran NY drug treatment centers face fraud charges
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A father and son who ran New York City substance abuse clinics were accused on Wednesday of stealing tax money meant to treat addicts and using it to fund a lavish lifestyle that included luxury cars. Alan Brand and his son, Jason … Read more on WHTC

Singer David Cassidy pleads guilty to drunken driving in NY
The deal also would require Cassidy to undergo a state-authorized treatment program for substance abuse, a condition that his lawyer, Lucas Mihuta, said the musician had fulfilled while attending drug and alcohol counseling in Florida. "I went through … Read more on WHBL Sheboygan

Mandy Dawson, former lawmaker, to enter residential rehab program after …
Scola sentenced Dawson to the 67 days she has already served since being arrested June 13 at her home in Daytona Beach, and ordered her to complete the program at Butterfly House, a Wellington drug treatment facility for women. He also ordered her to … Read more on Sun-Sentinel

City Guide 2014: Who's Who in Memphis
Has signed to write and direct The Gangster Princess of Beverly Hills, a true story about a Hollywood socialite who's really in the drug trade, also for Paramount. Created $ 5 Cover, a … Has directed shows for Santa Fe Opera, New York City Opera, and … Read more on Memphis Magazine

Couple plead in meth lab case
A couple arrested more than two years ago after members of the Cumberland County Sheriff's Department's Community Nuisance Enforcement Team (CNET) — acting on a community complaint — visited their home and seized a lab, pleaded guilty in … Read more on Crossville Chronicle

Mebaral Withdrawal and Mebaral Detox

Chiara de Blasio to be honored with recognition for seeking treatment for …
On Christmas Eve 2013, just a week before her father, Bill, took office as New York City mayor, Chiara acknowledged that she'd had treatment for depression and drug and alcohol abuse over the past year. “My mom was trying really hard to help me, any … Read more on New York Daily News

Experts, statistics say opiate abuse in Massachusetts isn't a new trend
… announced plans to combat soaring rates of opiate addiction. He proposed increasing drug treatment funding by $ 20 million, tried to ban a new powerful painkiller and expanded a program to train and equip first responders with an overdose-reversal drug. Read more on Attleboro Sun Chronicle

Community-based services focus on all substance abuse (commentary)
These workshops teach parents and caregivers to learn the risk factors for addiction (such as untreated mental health issues and family history), to identify the signs and symptoms of substance misuse and to provide the tools for parents to seek … Read more on SILive.com

Naloxone may reverse deadly effects of drug overdoses
April Rovero lost her college-aged son Joey to a combination of alcohol and prescription drugs including opioid and Oxycontin. While the former football … Addiction specialist Gantt Galloway helps run the New Leaf treatment center in Contra Costa County. Read more on abc7news.com

Taxpayers to foot the bill for “affluenza” teen's treatment
The judge ruled that Couch would have to undergo long-term treatment at an alcohol rehab center and sentenced him to probation. Now, the victims' families are outraged by the latest details released in the case. The state-run facility that is taking … Read more on kfor.com

Lindsay Lohan Allegedly Relapsed At Coachella, Which Is Exactly Where You'd …
Lindsay Lohan in New York City April 2014 I'm no doctor, but Coachella isn't another name for a rehab facility that Lindsay Lohan spent spent her weekend at, right? Just want to make sure I have it right, that that's a notoriously alcohol- and drug … Read more on Crushable

Chrisley Knows Arrest! Reality Star's Secret Assault Charges REVEALED …
Apparently a two-month stay in rehab wasn't enough for Kyle Chrisley to overcome his demons. More than two years after receiving treatment at a drug, alcohol and dual-diagnosis center, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned that the Chrisley Knows … Read more on Radar Online