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

No one-stop solution for cocaine addiction
… it has no specific information how many cocaine addicts there are in this city. Health Canada statistics from 2011 indicate that 9.4 per cent of Canadians had used illicit drugs over the last year, with 0.9 per cent using cocaine or crack … Read more on Montreal Gazette

Work key to breaking jail cycle
That program includes guided meditation mindfulness training and may also include literacy, parenting, anger-management, and sex-offender treatment as well as substance-abuse treatment that's more about understanding what triggers behaviors and how … Read more on The Recorder

The Revolution at the Corner Drugstore
The response has largely come in the form of new hep-C medicines and pharmacy-benefit managers, or PBMs, a kind of quasi-insurance company that purchases medications in bulk from drug makers, negotiates prices and oversees patient drug plans. The … Read more on Wall Street Journal

It's not the size of the government that's the problem
For example, it repeals part of the Dodd-Frank Act designed to stop Wall Street from using other peoples' money to support its gambling addiction, as the Street did before the near-meltdown of 2008. Dodd-Frank had barred banks from using commercial … Read more on Baltimore Sun

Former Philadelphia sportscaster Don Tollefson seeks counsel for upcoming trial
… makes $ 30,000 a year from social security disability which is above the threshold to be assigned a public defender. In March 2008, Tollefson was in a car crash on the turnpike. He said the aftermath of that crash led him to begin his pill addiction … Read more on Main Line

Drug and alcohol rehabilitation scheme given £5000 funding by Breckland Council
Breckland Council has granted the money to DAAT (the Drug and Alcohol Addiction Team) and Norfolk County Council for a new service, the 'Thetford Recovery Through Art Project'. The project will be set up by Keystone Development Trust to support those … Read more on Norfolk Eastern Daily Press