Despite Affordable Care Act, a gaping hole in addiction treatment
The Affordable Care Act, which promises sweeping changes to help millions of people with drug or alcohol addiction, requires that treatment be offered to those who are newly insured through the insurance exchanges or Medicaid, the government health …
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Heroin addicts face barriers to treatment
There are about 12,000 addiction treatment programs nationwide, according to McLellan's organization. Of those, about 10 percent are residential facilities, about 80 percent are outpatient programs and about 10 percent are methadone clinics. There's …
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New Helpline in Canandaigua Makes Finding Addiction Treatment Easy
LIGHTNING RELEASES (4/8/2014) – One of the most challenging aspects of overcoming a drug or alcohol addiction is knowing where to go for treatment. Teenagers with a drug or alcohol addictions can be admitted into a teenage rehab facility to get the …
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How to Fix Rehab: Expert Who Lost Son to Addiction Has a Plan
In the second half of 2009 and early 2010, McLellan helped lobby substance abuse treatment into the Affordable Care Act. As of January 1, addiction and mental health care is considered one of 10 essential pillars of national health. For more than ten …
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Drug abuse treatment clinic asked to close doors
"The clinic is in violation of zoning ordinance because it's a substance abuse clinic," Phillips said. "Those clinics are only allowed in the M-1 zone, which is light industrial but the location of the clinic is in the B-3 arterial business district …
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ACA Brings Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment to Millions
While the ACA now requires insurers selling plans on the online exchanges to offer substance abuse treatment and “mental health parity,” these changes may not translate into effective or immediate help for everyone. But the experts interviewed for this …
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Men Twice As Likely To Enter Substance Abuse Treatment, Though Elderly …
Print. Men Twice As Likely To Enter Substance Abuse Facilities. Although twice as many men seek inpatient treatment for substance abuse, elderly women are nearly three times as likely as men their age to abuse prescription painkillers such as oxycodone.
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Nursing leaders essential in providing quality health care
Visit any health care provider – clinic, hospital, rehab facility or mobile health care delivery program – and you'll find nurses form the largest group. Throughout Texas, the United States and even the world, the largest sector of health care …
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Mental Health Parity: If Not Now, When?
The latest policy brief published in the journal Health Affairs, documents the convoluted history of mental health parity, the idea that mental health care and treatment be comparable with all other types of “physical” medical care (and why make the …
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Injury Bargain Bin: Chiefs Should Look At Austin And Briesel
That said, these types of strains are also not degenerative like ligament tears or micro fractures, so with a full offseason to rest and rehab, Austin should be back to his old self by September. While it's clear that his prime is behind him, he would …
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S&P Capital IQ Initiates Coverage on BioCorRx Inc. in S&P Capital IQ Factual …
BioCorRx Inc. (otcqb:BICX) offers a comprehensive and cost-effective recovery program for the treatment of alcoholism called the Start Fresh Program which the company believes incorporates all of the essential elements for successful alcohol addiction …
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Do You Have an Alcohol or Drug Problem?
I have not ever been to any residential treatment nor have I ever been in trouble for anything to do with drugs. No record or posession, or any drug offense ever. I voluntarilly told the courts that I had used drugs. I did not ever want to go to a …
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Pontotoc County Drug Free Coalition to observe Alcohol Awareness Month in April
Terri White, commissioner of the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, says that prevention and treatment for substance abuse, particularly alcohol abuse, must be a priority in Oklahoma. “Alcohol abuse continues to be an …
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Cape May County's third forum on substance addiction set for Thursday
It takes a community effort to combat a problem as pervasive as substance addiction, and that's just what Cape May County's Board of Chosen Freeholders is looking to use against its ongoing heroin epidemic. The board will hold its third Community …
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How Obamacare Is Changing Addiction Treatment Coverage
Several of the most important aspects of the ACA for the world of addiction also finally roll out in 2014. The federal government, for example, released final regulations in November concerning the ACA's requirements that mental health and substance …
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Rural Ohio ravaged by drug deaths
Experts say treatment and rehabilitation is the key to fighting the drug problem, but only about a half-dozen treatment centers in southwest Ohio offer opiate addiction services, according to the Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services.
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STEVE DAMISH: An epidemic of inaction led to overdose crisis
Deval Patrick announced that he was mandating several moves to counter this heroin-fueled scourge, many branded the day one of the best in this ongoing war. But many also called it one of the worst, for it reminded them of the needless tragedies that …
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Speakers at celebrity lecture say mental illness isn't selective
“Mental Illness & Addiction — A Disease, not a Moral Failing,” the Mental Health Community Center's fifth annual celebrity lecture, was aimed at reducing stigma against those suffering from brain-based conditions, whether an addiction to prescription …
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Speakers say mental illness isn't selective
Standing on the Sarasota Opera House stage, they made a striking triumverate — a scion of an iconic political family, the son of a Hollywood movie star, and a best-selling New York Times author. As far as proof that … “Mental Illness & Addiction …
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