Reporter's Notebook: Governor hopeful Avellone focusing on drug-abuse crisis
He praised the center, which has a substance abuse treatment model, includes inpatient and outpatient services, and handles 22,000 annual client visits. The center has 30 beds in its detox unit for alcohol and opiate treatment, according to its website.
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Medical Datebook
“Grief and Loss in Addiction and Recovery,” 7:30-9 p.m. Tuesday, March 25, will describe theories of grief and grief recovery, losses that the chemically dependent individual and his/her family experience throughout the addiction and recovery processes …
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Casper Calendar for March 7, 2014
7 p.m.,500 S. Wolcott, Ste. 200, Easy Does It, nonsmoking; Glenrock: 615 W. Deer (downstairs). * 8 p.m., 917 N. Beech, closed, nonsmoking; Douglas: 628 S. Richards #5, Loft Group, smoking. * 8 p.m., 328 1/2 E. A St. (upstairs). One Day at a Time group …
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Philip Seymour Hoffman's death brings attention to drug addiction
And addiction is a medical disease, not a choice, writes Dr. Kim Dennis, a psychiatrist who's CEO and medical director of Timberline Knolls, a residential treatment center for girls and women in Chicago. “Saying that a person addicted to drugs can …
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Addiction Treatment Specialists Say Heroin Deaths Avoidable
Kloda says traditional self-help groups, like Narcotics Anonymous, are invaluable in offering social support and interaction with other recovering addicts. "It's like free group therapy, cognitive therapy," he said. But he said although it's not …
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Eugene Robinson commentary: Drug addiction needs to be treated as a medical …
There would be times when managing addiction meant prescribing to addicts pharmaceutical-grade heroin and other drugs and then medically monitoring them. There would be other times when it meant treatment to get clean. Philip Seymour Hoffman had …
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Answer Man: New addiction treatment center opens
Indeed it is. It's called the Minnesota Adult and Teen Challenge center, and it offers "comprehensive addiction treatment and recovery services under one umbrella." The long-term treatment program opened about a month ago, and it has about a dozen …
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