Native American values inform substance abuse treatment
SAN FRANCISCO – The foundational beliefs of American Indian and Alaska Native communities play a key role in innovative substance abuse treatment programs, research has shown. That's a novel finding that could challenge conventional notions of …
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Federal grant increases substance abuse treatment access
One local organization, Substance Abuse Services Center (SASC), of Dubuque and Manchester, has begun enrolling clients in a new distance treatment program funded through the grant. Deb Prier, SASC's treatment supervisor, said the grant has already …
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Family Video Counseling Aids in Substance Abuse Treatment
"Based on the encouraging results and positive feedback from families who participate in video counseling sessions, we plan to roll out Family Video Counseling to other Gateway Foundation residential substance abuse treatment centers this year," says Dr.
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County hopes to reopen drug, alcohol treatment program to court-ordered patients
They said we need to stop taking involuntaries," said Kim Phillips, director of the Substance Abuse Services Center — known to many simply as detox. Involuntaries are those people — about 150 a year — ordered by a judge to get substance abuse treatment.
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