Activists promote opiate antidote as US overdoses surge
Such overdoses killed 23,150 people in the United States in 2013, the most recent year for which national figures were available, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, while deaths from heroin alone quadrupled to 8,257 that … Read more on Fox News

Panama City Beach rehab facility sparks backlash
He said Friday he has gotten that endorsement to put up a 6-foot-tall privacy fence that would stretch across the right of way next to the street and to vegetation in the next lot, which supporters hope would deter people from the rehab center from … Read more on The News Herald

Kent mental health nonprofit buys defunct treatment center building
Originally, Valley Cities had planned to build a new center called Woodmont Recovery Center for these treatment services in Des Moines, on what is currently an empty eight-acre lot on Pacific Highway near 272nd Street. After a public outcry that the … Read more on Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle)

Police brace for heroin rise
Heroin use was declared an epidemic in Coos County last week, and if it's there, said Gold Beach Police Chief Dixon Andrews, the problem will find its way south to Curry County. “It's coming, no question about it,” Andrews said. “Five years ago … Read more on Curry Coastal Pilot

Renz Center joins #GivingTuesday effort
CHARLES – Renz Addiction Counseling Center has joined #GivingTuesday, a global day of giving that harnesses the collective power of individuals, communities and organizations to encourage philanthropy and to celebrate generosity worldwide, according … Read more on Kane County Chronicle

7K still needed to fund addiction recovery center
Serving the 13-county Concho Valley region for 50 years, the nonprofit organization provides outpatient and residential substance abuse treatment as well as education in prevention. The planned center would bring a badly needed new element to the … Read more on San Angelo Standard Times

Better treatment for addicts
Prescription painkiller use roughly quadrupled over the past 15 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Between 2013 and 2014, enough opioid painkillers prescriptions were filled in South Carolina to treat almost every … Read more on Charleston Post Courier

Tulsa Mulls a New Approach to Address Public Drunkenness
City officials are in talks with the Tulsa nonprofit addiction recovery center 12&12 about creating a “public inebriate alternative." Both city and 12&12 officials say any deal is likely a ways off. Police and substance abuse professionals believe it … Read more on Oklahoma Watch

There's a Drug That Prevents HIV. Let's Use It
In the study, conducted at two clinics treating sexually transmitted diseases and a community health center in three different cities, 437 men and transgender women took PrEP, which consists of emtricitabine and tenofovir (together called Truvada), for … Read more on TIME

Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers Orlando launches Painkiller Addiction and …
Alcohol Treatment Centers Orlando are promoting their prescription drug addiction rehab in the Orlando area to help those suffering become aware of recovery programs that are available to them. Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers Orlando has provided … Read more on PRUnderground (press release)

Substance Abuse Treatment Remains Low for Opioid Use Disorders
Newswise — During the decade from 2004 to 2013, use of treatment remained low for individuals with opioid use disorders, according to a study in the October 13 issue of JAMA. During the last decade, nonmedical use of opioid analgesics and heroin … Read more on Newswise (press release)

Baker would give hospitals the power to hold addicts
Peterson's son has been sober for nearly seven years now. Government has wrestled with how to treat substance abuse for centuries, a challenge long wrapped up in the fraught debate about whether addiction is a malady, a failure of will — or, perhaps … Read more on The Boston Globe

Amid heroin crisis, South Jersey may lose 42 percent of its treatment beds
As a speech on substance abuse reform by Gov. Chris Christie went viral Wednesday, back home, one of the largest providers of inpatient treatment in New Jersey was making plans to close. The CEO of John Brooks Recovery Center in Atlantic City, the … Read more on NJ.com

Health officials feel state struggles in offering addiction treatment
CLARKSBURG — A total of 769 treatment and recovery beds for substance abuse are a part of the public health system in West Virginia, but many state residents are left with nowhere to turn for treatment. “According to the Department of Health and Human … Read more on The Exponent Telegram (press release) (registration)

Wayne Co. begins process for needle exchange
The state health commissioner will make the final decision on the request. So far, three Indiana counties have been approved for needle exchange programs and each first held a public hearing before their commissioners declared a health emergency, which … Read more on Richmond

New St. Elizabeth CEO shuffles executive team
… Edgewood, Fort Thomas and Williamstown) as well as a Covington ambulatory center with a 24/7 emergency room, a Falmouth drug and alcohol treatment center, and more than 110 primary care and specialty office locations in Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana. Read more on Cincinnati Business Courier

Race and the Drug War
Not too many West Burro Baptist protests in Compton Planned Parenthood's, just Indiana and Caucasian districts. As the of color races increase and Caucasians decrease …. So long as they truly WANT help, So that it's not mandatory (jail or rehab … Read more on Drug WarRant

Twin addiction: A vow to beat addiction after sister didn't
In this Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013 photo, Faye Medema smokes a cigarette outside a recovery center in Houston. She had been a mess much of her life, dragged down by the same hard-core addiction that had plagued both her parents. She and her fraternal twin … Read more on mySanAntonio.com

Dozens protest in Des Moines over plans to build drug and mental health …
DES MOINES, Wash. — Parents who say they are worried about the safety of their children protested Tuesday over a drug and mental health recovery center moving into their community. The facility breaks ground this fall and will open next year. “It … Read more on Q13 FOX

Recovering addicts find support at new peer center in Quincy
QUINCY – People who've struggled with addiction find help at new peer center in Quincy. Treatment is only the first hurdle for those struggling with addiction. They still face the lifelong journey of recovery – often without much support. A new peer … Read more on The Patriot Ledger

Recovery Kentucky Center opens in Knott County
10, 2015) — Officials today celebrated the grand opening of the Hickory Hill Recovery Center in Knott County. The facility is the state's newest Recovery Kentucky Center and will offer a supportive housing and recovery program for men suffering from … Read more on The Lane Report