Treatment center planned for BHC
Treatment referrals for the residential substance abuse center will be through Mohave County Mental Health Clinic or through Southwest Behavioral Health Services. The planned 10-bed adult facility will provide a clinician and case manager for each … Read more on Mohave Valley News

S. Ogden neighbors line up to oppose drug rehab center
… surrounding the gated property at 6000 S. 1075 East came out in force Thursday night to let South Ogden planning commissioners know that they object to the recent buyer's plans to convert existing buildings into a residential addiction treatment … Read more on Standard-Examiner

ACLU Seeks To Challenge Law Targeting Pregnant Drug Addicts
Opponents of the bill say it actually deters women from seeking medical care and does nothing to help drug addicts access treatment. The two residential drug treatment facilities in Tennessee where women don't have to give up their children to enroll … Read more on Huffington Post

Foster, Maloney Introduce Legislation To Combat Heroin Abuse, Increase …
This legislation removes barriers to addiction treatment by providing grants for residential/in-patient opioid addiction treatment for qualified individuals. For an individual to qualify, they must either lack health insurance or have health insurance … Read more on Insurance News Net

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

Under threat, Iraq's Christians flee city of Mosul – WAFB 9 News Baton Rouge …
The center of Tikrit is still under insurgent control, and is being shelled by the Iraqi military, he said. Meanwhile in the … He suffered a stroke in late 2012, and was flown to Germany shortly afterwards for treatment and rehabilitation. With … Read more on WAFB.com

Florida pot debate grows
SHE SAYS THE AREA'S REHAB CENTERS ARE ALREADY FILLED WITH PATIENTS WHO ABUSE POT. WHEN 60 PERCENT OF OUR FOLKS WHO ACTUALLY ARE ADMITTED INTO TREATMENT HERE ARE FOR POT DISORDER WE'RE CONCERNED … Read more on WJXT Jacksonville

Denver Broncos CB Bradley Roby is working this offseason to make his acumen …
In April, he was arrested for driving a vehicle while impaired — the police found him in a parked car and smelled alcohol. Last July, he was charged with … "My biggest thing here was that Travelle wanted me to rehab my knee, because it was still … Read more on SI.com

Den Tandt: As media, we struggle with our Rob Ford addiction
Alcohol and drug addiction are merely the latest in a long line of enemies arrayed to bring Ford down and prevent his turfing out the elitist “special interests,” and putting the little guy in charge. This is not a new political tactic – it's textbook … Read more on Canada.com

Mexican police rescue 44 people being held at drug rehab center
A total of 44 people, including seven minors, were rescued by federal and state authorities at a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in Mexico state, which surrounds the Federal District and forms part of the Mexico City metropolitan area. EFE/File. Read more on La prensa

Portia de Rossi 'secretly checked into rehab' for alcohol treatment
The Arrested Development actress secretly checked into the Passages Malibu rehab facility in May for a 30-day treatment for drugs and alcohol. The reports claim the move came after an “ugly fight” with wife, chat show host Ellen DeGeneres. “They got … Read more on Irish Independent

Documentary film maker visits Carbondale with rehab CEO
A New Jersey filmmaker took a walk through Carbondale with a Florida drug and alcohol rehab CEO whose hopes of bringing a similar facility to the Upvalley are in the hands of Lackawanna County court officials. Cynthia Bellino will be a part of Michael … Read more on Scranton Times-Tribune

S. Ogden neighbors line up to oppose drug rehab center
The nonprofit Horsley Foundation and STEPS Recovery Center recently purchased the property, pending city approval of a conditional use permit that would allow 64 potential clients to live on the closed campus. … The U.S. Department of Justice lists … Read more on Standard-Examiner

FDA Prescription Drug Abuse Plan Hits – and Misses – the Mark
He is CEO of Elements Behavioral Health, a network of mental health and addiction treatment centers that includes an adolescent rehab at Right Step as well as Promises, The Ranch, The Recovery Place, The Sexual Recovery Institute, Clarity Way, Journey … Read more on PsychCentral.com (blog)

'Cost of Addiction Rehab Increases, Yet Relapse Rate Stays the Same,' Says …
Even though the cost of drug addiction rehab is rising by leaps and bounds every year, the benefits offered by many rehab centers in the US or Canada is of dubious value. Especially for short-term drug rehab programs, relapse rates remain astonishingly … Read more on Motor E magazine

Punjab to set up 22 rehabilitation centers for drug addicts
Badal directed the health department officials to remove various bottlenecks hindering the smooth treatment facilities. He said the state government was providing free medicine for the treatment of drug addicts besides other facilities for the indoor … Read more on Times of India

No Rehab for Russia's Drug Addicts
Marat Aginyan, a psychiatrist specializing in drug addiction at Moscow's Center for Healthy Youth who also works with the National Anti-Drugs Union for Rehabilitating Addicts, was upbeat about Ivanov's plans to build communes, but expressed concern … Read more on The Moscow Times

11 punished after drug addicts escape from rehab center
Three officials at the rehab center in Xingye County and five assistant police officers were fired over the incident in which the detained drug addicts dug a tunnel with bed boards to escape, the report said. Three policemen were suspended over the … Read more on ecns

What Does Drug Rehab Accreditation Really Mean?
Of the 13,339 addiction treatment programs that voluntarily responded to The National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services, 21.8 percent were accredited by CARF, 19.2 percent were accredited by the Joint Commission and 56.9 percent were not … Read more on PsychCentral.com (blog)