Hillside Rehab Facility Publishes a Slide Show on Alcoholism Risk Factors
(PRLEAP.COM) Hillside, a Pennsylvania-based inpatient residential alcohol and drug addiction rehab facility, created a slide show to help people assess their personal risk for addiction. The slide show, published to Hillside's website, highlights the …
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Rob Kardashian is reportedly seeking help for depression and substance abuse …
The reality star has been at The Meadows trauma and addiction center for the last month, and sources say he's taking to the treatment already. "He's been feeling stronger and more relaxed without the incessant berating from everyone. I would love to …
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Akron Alcohol Drug Rehab Launches New Residential Treatment Program for …
Akron Alcohol Drug Rehab is launching a new residential treatment program focused on drug addiction and its side effects in Akron. Residential treatment involves detoxification and inpatient programs. These are all designed to work in tandem so a …
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How to Fix Rehab: Expert Who Lost Son to Addiction Has a Plan
The call came on a Saturday, a day after Thomas McLellan told an auditorium of graduate students to rethink the science of addiction. As a research psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, no one knew more about the subject. But despite his …
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Question by Jenifer: Why does insurance cover so little days for drug rehab?
My husband was just admitted to Sunrise House in Lafayette,Nj. This is his first time in rehab. It is a 28 days program but the people who work there tell me we will get lucky if they let him stay for 10 days. Why do they do this?
ok, honeslty, everyone is being a little judgmental. Addiction is a disease and people need help for it. I was just wondering if any has been in a simular situation and could give me any insight.

Best answer:

Answer by pixelpops
Because drug addiction is not a MEDICAL issue, like having cancer or a back injury.

@Takikio – anyone who doesn’t know the difference between “your” and “you’re” is the real moron.
There’s an edit button, you stupid b*tch – which you obviously used, to look less like an idiot.

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Fighting heroin addiction / Treatment beds needed
Cumberland County has 146 beds in Bridgeton at Seabrook House , which describes itself as a "private and exclusive" rehab center. And most of Atlantic County's treatment beds are at the John Brooks Recovery Center in Atlantic City – where most of the …
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Centre For Drug Addiction Treatment
cfdat Excessive drinking is extremely risky for the health of individuals. For the comfort and restoration of those obsessed individuals, the drug rehab centers are playing amazing role. The addicted patient needs several educative as well as …
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Haverhill burglar stole to fund drug addiction, court told
It would be devastating for the householderwhen they returned.” The court also heard how Burke had been taking part in drug rehabilitation programmes in prison, while awaiting sentence. He is “desperate” to stop his use of illegal drugs, Mr Martin added.
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Cork treatment centre trains addicts in resuscitation skills in effort to …
A Cork treatment centre is training people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol in resuscitation skills in a bid to prevent death from overdose. The quality improvement initiative at Arbour House, a non-residential centre for people with alcohol and …
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Sunday Beat: Rehabilitation centres needed to treat growing drug addiction
With more than a third of the Omani population under the age of 30 years, drug addiction poses a real threat to the society but the government is still reluctant to spend money to rehabilitate addicts. Instead, it is relying on short-term remedies that …
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Local treatment center helps men overcome addiction
The nonprofit, Christian-based treatment organization, headquartered in Minneapolis, purchased and renovated the former Samaritan Bethany Heights nursing home. It sits on a hill next to the Assisi Heights Franciscan Sisters complex in northwest …
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Americans, weary of war on drugs, prefer rehab to jail, poll says (+video)
That's the conclusion of a new Pew Research Center poll finding that two-thirds of Americans prefer drug policies that emphasize rehabilitation, not jail time, for those who use illegal drugs such as heroin or cocaine. Most Americans also support …
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Ft. Hood rampage prompts veterans to ask why
Bill Vagianos, president of the Brevard Veterans Memorial Center and a psychologist, likened his return from the Vietnam War to returning from the moon. He came home to a different world. He said suffering post-traumatic stress can be a difficult …
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Lang Brings Message of Hope, Recovery to Chapel Service
He shared his personal story of overcoming drug addiction and the hope he found in Jesus Christ, continuing the semester's chapel theme on “brokenness.” … Soon after, he spent a 90 day stay at Rob's Ranch, a Christ-based treatment center for men …
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