Ventura County, CA Addiction Treatment Center Expands Services
The affordable luxury drug rehab treatment center in Ventura County, California improves success rates and announces revised licensing and health insurance acceptance. Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Google+ Share on LinkedIn Email a …
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Teen Rehab Center Three Stones Wellness Addresses Teen Addiction and …
Three Stones Wellness, an adolescent residential alcohol drug abuse treatment facility offering a holistic approach for teens with substance abuse problems, announces the grand opening of its new location in Santa Clara, California on November 18, 2013.
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Audit: LA County Failed To Properly Regulate Drug Treatment Clinics
In July, an investigation by the Center for Investigative Reporting and CNN found that $ 94 million has been awarded over the past two years through the Drug Medi-Cal Treatment Program to 56 clinics in Southern California that have engaged in fraudulent …
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LA County Officials Predict Substance Misuse Care Will Expand Under ACA
Albert Senella — president of the California Association of Alcohol and Drug Program Executives and president and CEO of Tarzana Treatment Centers — thinks there could be a capacity problem because federal regulations allow reimbursement only for …
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Amid fraud allegations, rehab doctor OKs treatment without seeing patients
A Southern California doctor with a history of run-ins with regulators has approved treatment for more than 1,550 patients at publicly funded drug rehabilitation clinics now under investigation for fraud. Dr. Howard Oliver acknowledged that he never …
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PPACA may steer 40 million to drug, alcohol programs
The 40-million figure comes from the California Health Report, in an article which discusses how drug and alcohol treatment programs will be viewed differently under the act. (The California Health Report is a nonprofit civic journalism project.) “I …
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Substance Misuse Treatment Likely To Be Transformed by ACA
According to Richard Rawson — a professor of psychiatry and associate director of the UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs — drug treatment in California was developed independently of medical care. "It's this weird mix of self-help, criminal …
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Boy Scouts Honor Three Santa Clarita Couples As Leaders of Character
Cary Quashen operates Action Family Counseling Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers which as 12 locations and 16 programs in operation in Southern California. He is a certified addition specialist who also founded Action Family Counseling, a nonprofit …
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An intervention … for Malibu
As of July, there were 35 state-licensed drug and alcohol rehab facilities in this city (population 12,645). High-profile rehabilitation … While 85 percent of drug and alcohol treatment programs in the United States are nonprofit, the luxury …
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How Some Addicts Sneak In Drugs
WASHINGTON (WUSA9) — Take a look at a rare glimpse at what's really going on behind closed doors at -some- of the nation's drug and alcohol rehab facilities. Two California counselors speak publicly for the first time about drug use they've witnessed …
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Malibu's Rehab Issue Gaining Steam
Buoyed by a blitz of national media attention, Malibu city officials traveled to Sacramento last week to once again push for state legislation regulating the spread of high-priced drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers in Malibu neighborhoods. Malibu …
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Senator Ted Lieu Calls for Audit of Rehab Programs in California
Lieu, the alleged fraud in the Medi-Cal program is not only outrageous, but also damaging to the efforts of legitimate rehab centers trying to utilize their resources from the state of California to help rehabilitate ex-drug and alcohol users. He has …
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Rehab racket: Frauds, felons and fakes
Drug Medi-Cal paid out $ 94 million in the past two fiscal years to 56 clinics in Southern California that have shown signs of deception or questionable billing practices, representing half of all public funding to the program, CIR and CNN found …
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Assembly sets hearing on rehab fraud
A California lawmaker has scheduled a hearing to examine disclosures of significant fraud in taxpayer-funded drug rehabilitation by The Center for Investigative Reporting and CNN. Dr. Richard Pan, chairman of the Assembly Health Committee, wants to …
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Dodgers Thinking About Rehab For Crawford
Don Mattingly gave a status update on Carl Crawford's return Monday, saying that the team has “started talking about, thinking about” his rehab assignment. Quite the vague timetable, but he seemed optimistic about Crawford's chances of joining the club …
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Lindsay Lohan's Required Rehab Forcing Ali To Spend More Time With Dina …
And Governor Jerry Brown already ordered state officials "to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in California as soon as the 9th Circuit confirms the stay is lifted," so it's OFFICIAL!!! Congratulations to everyone who fought so hard …
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Delaware Voice: Delaware must expand its drug rehab programs
In California, drug courts were established in 2000 and monies were diverted from the prisons to drug rehabs. California was able to take two planned prisons off the books and close two more. They are saving millions of dollars while offering their …
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Bushkill man gets county prison for sex with underage girl
Investigated by township police last year, Joseph Ehrie confessed to 10 to 15 sexual encounters with the girl beginning when she was 15, saying he wanted to make amends for what he did after completing drug and alcohol rehab in California, according to …
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“Area Closed for Plant Rehabilitation”

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Bryan Stow Out of Rehab, Home With Parents
A recent post on Bryan Stow's blog gave the surprising news that he is out of rehab and at his parents home in Santa Cruz County, though the news isn't all that heartening – his condition seems to be deteriorating. His parents are blaming their woes on …
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Lindsay Lohan Transfers Rehab Facilities, Leaves Betty Ford Center for …
… troubled actress Lindsay Lohan has checked out of the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California, where she had begun her 90-day court ordered treatment, and is being transferred to the Cliffside Malibu rehab facility in Malibu, California …
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Kyle Otte takes next step at California rehab facility
Editor's Note: Kyle Otte was 17 years-old, heading into his senior year at Randolph High School, when he was injured on July 4, 2010. He fell off the running board of a Jeep while heading to a bonfire after watching fireworks near the family's Lake …
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