Parker Enters Clinical Trial Agreements with Leading Rehabilitation Centers to …
CLEVELAND, March 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Parker Hannifin Corporation (NYSE:PH) , the global leader in motion and control technologies, today announced that it has entered into clinical trial agreements with four of the top ranked rehabilitation …
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Pitfalls Seen in a Turn to Privately Run Long-Term Care
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Question by kober_gurl: is there already a research conducted about “freindster addiction?”?

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Answer by ANSWERMAN
I can’t seem to find it but, On Thursday December 1st, The New York Times had a lead story in the ThursdayStyles section on internet addiction. The article comes from Redmond, Wash. (home, of course, of Microsoft) and focuses on a therapist who runs “Internet/Computer Addiction Services”.

The therapist specializes in internet addiction disorder, treating people she refers to as “onlineaholics”. And she estimated that approximately 6-10% of the approximately 190,000,000 internet users in this country suffer from this affliction. I must admit that I drink my morning coffee while sitting in front of a computer reading the email that has arrived overnight. But I see the computer just a substitute for the newspaper that I used to read with my coffee twenty years ago.

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Recovery Works assists men with drug and alcohol addiction problems
STAFF PHOTOS BY DEDE BILES Recovery Works Ponderosa is a long-term residential recovery center for men who suffer from alcohol and drug addiction. Paul Bartley, director of operations, spends some time with Martha, a dog that lives there. STAFF …
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His Death, Their Lives
Their talk quickly turned from sorrow and shock over Mr. Hoffman's death to one of a more personal nature: What does this mean for me, the recovering alcoholic or drug addict? Can all my years of sobriety, years I have fought hard to maintain, slip …
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'Recovering Alcoholic': Words That Stigmatize or Empower?
If you hear someone say that they are a "recovering alcoholic" or a "recovering addict" how do you react? Can you imagine yourself saying such words, and if so how would you expect others to react? There is no doubt that the concept of alcoholism has …
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Support groups
Autism Support Group – Meets the third Wednesday of select months, 6:30-8:30 p.m., St. Luke's Rehabilitation Institute, 711 S. Cowley St. Call (509) 624-3323 for more information. Bariatric … “Connections” Bereavement Support For Families – Special …
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Addicted on Staten Island
Jacqueline Fiore, the executive director of the Staten Island Y.M.C.A. Counseling Service, a highly respected drug treatment facility, said she and her colleagues in the recovery world had anticipated and worried about a heroin problem for several …
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Northwest Inpatient Rehab Center Open House
Northwest Inpatient Rehab Center is a 10 bed facility. AMARILLO — Northwest Texas Hospital is holding an open house tonight from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. for the new Northwest Inpatient Rehab Center. The ribbon cutting will be at 4 p.m.. Northwest Inpatient …
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MedPAC freezes payments to ASCs, hospices, inpatient rehab hospitals
MedPAC agreed to freeze payments to ambulatory surgical centers, long-term care hospitals, inpatient rehab facilities, dialysis, home health and hospice providers in 2015, AHA News Now reported. Margins for hospice care are healthy, averaging 8.7 …
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Heroin's Small-Town Toll, and a Mother's Grief
But the government would not pay for inpatient treatment, and Ms. Hale, uninsured, could not afford to send her daughter an hour away to Hazelden, one of the best-known rehab programs in the country. Still, after the detox, in early 2013, Ms. Ivy …
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A Court's All-Hands Approach Aids Girls Most at Risk
Another young woman, the daughter of a methamphetamine addict, was “sold” by her mother to an uncle in the Central Valley who sexually exploited her in exchange for drugs. One 17-year-old wore a fuzzy pink … Many flee their families to escape abuse …
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Waiting For Help: St. Johnsbury Clinic Hopes To Reduce Lines For Drug Treatment
One of the regional centers that dispenses opiate treatment medication for people addicted to prescription drugs and other substances is BAART, a for-profit business that started in California. BAART—Bay Area Addiction Research and … On this frigid …
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