California is one of the largest and most populated states in the country. Located on the western part of the United States, against the Pacific Ocean, it borders Oregon on the north and Mexico on the south. It has a diverse population and many parts of the state, such as Los Angeles, are overcrowded. There is heavy use of drugs, as well as alcohol in the state, as a result of which there are over 1000 California Rehab Centers, more than anywhere else in the country, with Orange Country having the majority.
Experience has shown that long term’ treatment is much more effective than ‘short term’ (less than 30 days) with California Rehabilitation programs. Following treatment at the center, there is extended care, followed by weekly checkups and group therapy. It has been found that continued reinforcement is needed for the program, whether drugs or alcohol, if it is to be successful.
This treatment is obtained at a tremendous cost, not only to the government and the individual, but to society as well. Many break-ins, robberies, family abuse’ and other problems of society, are directly attributed to this problem. Federal, state and local governments, alone, spend hundreds of thousands of dollars each week with arrests, trials and imprisonment of these people. Records for 2005 show that almost half a trillion dollars was spent on substance abuse and addiction problems in the United States. It is reported that only two percent went toward rehabilitation.
Treatment at the centers can vary, however the majority of long-term programs (30-45 days) have intense, cognitive behavioral therapy, either individually or in a group, working up to life skills and a return to normal life. There are centers that are specifically for a particular gender, such as one for women, in Costa Mesa, California, which is a private pay facility. There are also county-funded programs, with managed care options.
Because of the frequency of the problem of overcrowding, in the prison system, by alcohol and drug abuse people, the legislation introduced Proposition 36, which sends many people with this problem into rehabilitation, rather than prison. This has caused a dramatic increase in the number of rehabilitation centers in the state. In addition, because it is acknowledged that it is difficult for addicts to remain drug or alcohol free, in some cases there is monitoring and inpatient residential programs after treatment.
Among the many rehab centers in California, there are a number that are sponsored by religious organizations. One of the most successful of this type of rehab center has a program is directed toward young teens with alcohol and drug problems. It offers housing, treatment, training and other guidance not only to teens but to children and adults as well.
This program, as well as similar ones, has been very successful and has been copied by other cities throughout the United States. It is felt that, by treating people, the younger the better, lives can be improved by being free of alcohol or drug abuse. When completing a program, reinforcement must be continued for a long time if it is to be successful.
Alcohol and drug abuse affects everyone in the country, and every level of life. In California, alone, it takes hundreds of thousands of dollars to fight the problem, that could better be used for things such as education. California rehab centers are at the front in treatment of people with this problem but there is still a long way to go.

California is one of the largest and most populated states in the country. Located on the western part of the United States, against the Pacific Ocean, it borders Oregon on the north and Mexico on the south. It has a diverse population and many parts of the state, such as Los Angeles, are overcrowded. There is heavy use of drugs, as well as alcohol in the state, as a result of which there are over 1000 California Rehab Centers, more than anywhere else in the country, with Orange Country having the majority.
Experience has shown that long term’ treatment is much more effective than ‘short term’ (less than 30 days) with California Rehabilitation programs. Following treatment at the center, there is extended care, followed by weekly checkups and group therapy. It has been found that continued reinforcement is needed for the program, whether drugs or alcohol, if it is to be successful.
This treatment is obtained at a tremendous cost, not only to the government and the individual, but to society as well. Many break-ins, robberies, family abuse’ and other problems of society, are directly attributed to this problem. Federal, state and local governments, alone, spend hundreds of thousands of dollars each week with arrests, trials and imprisonment of these people. Records for 2005 show that almost half a trillion dollars was spent on substance abuse and addiction problems in the United States. It is reported that only two percent went toward rehabilitation.
Treatment at the centers can vary, however the majority of long-term programs (30-45 days) have intense, cognitive behavioral therapy, either individually or in a group, working up to life skills and a return to normal life. There are centers that are specifically for a particular gender, such as one for women, in Costa Mesa, California, which is a private pay facility. There are also county-funded programs, with managed care options.
Because of the frequency of the problem of overcrowding, in the prison system, by alcohol and drug abuse people, the legislation introduced Proposition 36, which sends many people with this problem into rehabilitation, rather than prison. This has caused a dramatic increase in the number of rehabilitation centers in the state. In addition, because it is acknowledged that it is difficult for addicts to remain drug or alcohol free, in some cases there is monitoring and inpatient residential programs after treatment.
Among the many rehab centers in California, there are a number that are sponsored by religious organizations. One of the most successful of this type of rehab center has a program is directed toward young teens with alcohol and drug problems. It offers housing, treatment, training and other guidance not only to teens but to children and adults as well.
This program, as well as similar ones, has been very successful and has been copied by other cities throughout the United States. It is felt that, by treating people, the younger the better, lives can be improved by being free of alcohol or drug abuse. When completing a program, reinforcement must be continued for a long time if it is to be successful.
Alcohol and drug abuse affects everyone in the country, and every level of life. In California, alone, it takes hundreds of thousands of dollars to fight the problem, that could better be used for things such as education. California rehab centers are at the front in treatment of people with this problem but there is still a long way to go.

Social Innovation Fellows Class of 2012

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FELLOWS

Jamila Abass – MFarm
As CEO of MFarm, Jamila Abass uses mobile technology to help farmers increase their incomes. MFarm provides farmers in Kenya with real-time market price information and a group selling platform where they can connect with other farmers to jointly market their crops in greater volumes. By giving rural farmers more direct and powerful access to buyers, MFarm is positioned to improve hundreds of thousands – and potentially millions – of lives.
www.mfarm.co.ke/

Lukas Biewald – CrowdFlower
Lukas Biewald is CEO and founder of CrowdFlower, a crowdsourcing internet company that breaks large digital projects into small microtasks and distributes them to workers around the world. CrowdFlower engages a workforce of nearly 3.5 million people to complete more than 2 million tasks every day. In a key example, Biewald helped PopTech Science Fellow Sarah Fortune find new ways to study the bacteria that cause tuberculosis. By sharing the workload, making it fun and insisting on quality results, CrowdFlower provides incomes while speeding the path toward more accurate and scalable results.
crowdflower.com/

Rachel Brown – Sisi ni Amani – Kenya
Rachel Brown founded Sisi ni Amani – Kenya ("We are Peace – Kenya" in Swahili) to pioneer the use of mobile technology to get the right communication capacity into the hands of local peacebuilders, enabling communities to participate in democratic processes and prevent violence. Through civic education, engagement and dialogue, SNA-K leverages SMS text messaging to support the peace efforts of community leaders. As a key partner in the collaborative PeaceTXT project, SNA-K is working to make locally effective tools that can be replicated globally in stopping violence and building peace.
sisiniamani.org/

Bryan Doerries – Outside the Wire
Bryan Doerries is the founder of Theater of War, a project that presents readings of ancient Greek plays to service members, veterans, caregivers and families to help them start talking about the challenges faced by military communities today. He is also the co-founder of Outside the Wire, LLC, a social impact company that uses theater and a variety of other media to address pressing public health issues, such as combat-related psychological injury, end of life care, prison reform, political violence and torture, and the de-stigmatization of the treatment of substance abuse and addiction. A self-described evangelist for classical literature and its relevance to our lives today, Doerries uses age-old approaches to help heal very modern wounds.
www.outsidethewirellc.com/

Toure McCluskey – OkCopay
Toure McCluskey is the founder of OkCopay, a unique search engine for medical procedures that helps Americans with inadequate insurance find affordable local health care. At OkCopay, people can quickly search for the procedure they need, compare local providers, and view actual provider prices and details on the appropriate health clinic. By bringing transparency to healthcare costs, OkCopay is ensuring that those most in need can find effective and reasonable health services.
www.okcopay.com/

Nicholas Merrill – Calyx Institute
Nicholas Merrill created the Calyx Institute to help launch a telecommunications and Internet service provider focused on the right to privacy and freedom of expression. Merrill has personally fought intrusive government demands for private customer information, and he aims to develop, document and publicly release technology to enable private communications that even the service provider cannot decode or eavesdrop upon. Merrill’s goal is to inhibit mass surveillance and to protect the privacy and security of users everywhere.
www.facebook.com/calyxinstitute

Jacobo Quintanilla – Internews
Jacobo Quintanilla joined Internews to bring news and information resources to people in humanitarian crises. As Director of Humanitarian Information Projects, Quintanilla has helped create a two-way dialogue between aid workers and affected communities in countries such as Haiti, Central African Republic and Kenya. Building on Internews’ core mission, Quintanilla’s projects empower local media in crisis situations to give people the news and information they need, the ability to connect, and the means to make their voices heard.
internews.org/

Andreas Raptopoulos – Matternet
Andreas Raptopoulos is the founder and CEO of Matternet, building a network of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to transport medicine and goods in places with poor road infrastructure. Matternet’s "drones for good" use small, electric UAVs to transport packages weighing up to 2 kilos and containing items like vaccines, medicines or blood samples, over distances of 10 kilometers at a time. By creating a new paradigm for transportation that leapfrogs roads, Matternet is helping to revolutionize transportation in the developing world.
matternet.us/

Aishwarya Lakshmi Ratan – Global Financial Inclusion Initiative
As director of the Global Financial Inclusion Initiative at Yale University and Innovations for Poverty Action, Aishwarya Ratan focuses on the design and delivery of effective financial services for the poor. GFII seeks to test, evaluate and replicate interventions to improve products, delivery channels and tools ranging from savings products to mobile money and financial literacy programs. The initiative’s rigorous approach to testing and measuring the impact of such innovations aims to ensure that the financial services available to the poor to manage and grow their money are affordable, efficient, secure and welfare-enhancing.
www.poverty-action.org/financialinclusion

Eric Stowe – A Child’s Right / Splash
Eric Stowe believes that every child has a right to clean water—and he has built an innovative, scalable approach to act on that belief. Since founding A Child’s Right (soon to be Splash) in 2006, Stowe has developed a highly effective model to ensure safe water for urban children living at the intersection of these two streets: “greatest degrees of poverty” and “worst water quality conditions.” Leveraging world-class water purification technology, sustainable monitoring and maintenance, excellent people, and a rigorous commitment to transparency, A Child’s Right will soon announce that every orphanage in China has safe drinking water. Stowe’s team will then demonstrate how they are customizing their approach for 15 more countries in Asia and East Africa, using their "Proving It" platform to share both successes and failures at all of their project sites.
achildsright.org/

Eric Woods – Switchboard
Eric Woods is the CEO and founder of Switchboard, which uses mobile phones to create nationwide networks of health workers in developing countries. Switchboard partners with mobile operators to provide health workers with free nationwide calling, a nationwide registry and access to information via bulk text messaging. Having already linked all doctors in both Ghana and Liberia, Switchboard will next connect health workers at all levels throughout Tanzania, working toward the vision of a collaborative network of health advice, referrals and improved care in places where access is most challenging.
www.switchboard.org/

Daniel Zoughbie – Microclinic International
Daniel Zoughbie created Microclinic International to help leverage the power of social network relationships to spread healthy behaviors throughout under-resourced communities. Working in Jordan, India, Kenya, the West Bank and the United States, Microclinic International has begun to show that working through existing social groups of friends and family can significantly help people improve their outcomes in the fight against such diseases as diabetes and HIV/AIDS. The effectiveness of their approach is attracting attention from governments and other large-scale health providers, opening the door to large-scale replication and the broader use of this "contagious health" approach.
microclinics.org/

A large no of people in Chicago use alcohol and other narcotics. Some people drink alcohol as a fashion but some use it to relieve from depression. The consumption of alcohol is very effective against depression and stress but it is not beneficial to use for long term. The drinkers can face many problems in their lives due to the consumption of alcohol like kidney failure, hypertension and many others. Therefore consumption of alcohol is not better for everyone because it is fatal for human health. The important factor is that it is also not easy to inhibit alcohol because it is difficult process. If you want to stop using alcohol then you should decrease its amount gradually because it is better than abrupt inhibition of alcohol. The side effects are possible after quick inhibition of alcohol therefore drinkers should avoid from this practice. Alcohol treatment Chicago center is a department that helps drinkers who want to stop using alcohol. Therefore if you want to have better treatment then it is better to join this center. The main objective of this centre is to provide complete protection to drinkers against side effects. The consumption of alcohol has become an epidemic in Chicago therefore these centers are very necessary.
Similarly there are many ways that can help you against alcohol consumption. You can search about it with the help of internet because it is a big source and it can provide you useful information. You just need to use the internet and type alcohol abuse then you will find a large no of options and treatments against alcohol consumption. A large no of hospitals and therapists are present in united state for your help. Chicago is also a very develop city and it contains a lot of hospitals and skilled doctors for your help. Similarly you can also use many other options like you can consult with your doctor to handle this problem. You can also use many drugs to stop alcohol consumption. Entertainment is also a best way for this purpose. Your health provider can provide useful and better information about it therefore you should act upon your doctor directions because it is beneficial for you. Most of the doctors recommend rehab centers in Chicago for drinkers treatment because it is a best place for their treatment. In rehab centers skilled and experienced doctors provide good management to the patients of depression.
The most important factor behind the alcohol consumption is depression. People use alcohol to relive from depression and anxiety. The alcohol is not beneficial for the treatment of depression because it provides relief only for a short period of time. The depression appears due to reduction of hormones and chemicals in human brain. Therefore medicines can provide good treatment against depression and anxiety. Drug rehabilitation in Chicago is a very important treatment for drinker in Chicago. Similarly it also provides better treatment to alcohol consumers. Therefore rehab center is a best place for the treatment of drinkers.
 

Getting quality insurance should take a certain amount of research on your part in getting competitive quotes for insurance either online or contacting companies in your area. Getting the best quality insurance available for your car can be as easy as using some key words on the Internet. As we all know this avenue has become increasingly popular in the fact that just about every subject can be found to have some information available to you 24 hours a day seven days a week.

Insurance is something everyone should carry and there are many reasons why. One reason is the fact that accidents do happen, and if medical treatments and other high dollar medical procedures have to be performed, your insurance will have you covered. Many times there have been situations that have come up that individuals do not have the insurance coverage that they needed for a particular situation and have had to pay many thousands of dollars to hospitals and ambulance companies and aftercare just because a lapse in coverage happens or in this economy today, they lose their job.

Taking some time to get some competitive quotes for insurance on your car, home, self, and children should be something that you should do today. There are many ways to get this insurance but the best possible avenue is to pull up a search engine and find some of the quality websites that can give some accurate quotes for insurance and give you the figure that you will have to pay on a monthly basis. Having this information available to talk over the situation with your significant other about what avenues to go to will make the process that much easier.

Going without insurance should be something that no one in this great country of the United States of America should have to do. There are thousands of large and small insurance companies that have the ability to keep you covered when you need it. Now, as we all know insurance is something that we use only a few times in our lifetime especially if you are talking about auto insurance. Some people go their entire lives without using the auto insurance coverage that they have, but all it takes is that one time for something to happen and youll be glad you got some competitive quotes for insurance for your family and coverage from a quality insurance company.

Fear of Detox

The single most common reason why people who suffer from alcohol addiction refuse to accept to enter addiction treatment is because they are afraid to go through the alcohol detox phase of the process. Sometimes people view alcohol detox as still being performed in the manner that it was in the 1940s and 1950s. During the early days of alcohol treatment, patients had to be constrained in strait-jackets while suffering through horrible withdrawals. However, in todays world it is safe to say these old detox methods are counterproductive and are no longer used.

Modern Alcohol Detox

Alcohol addiction rehab treatment has dramatically improved over the last 70 years. Today there are more modern alcohol detoxifications protocols designed to eliminate many of the most painful or uncomfortable withdrawal symptoms associated with detox. The most effective alcohol addiction treatment available today is known as Ibogaine treatment. Ibogaine is illegal in the United States, but is available in select locations around the world. However, even with the advancements of Ibogaine Treatment, recovering from alcoholism is still not an easy process. Recovery from alcohol addiction is still a difficult and lengthy process that requires ongoing support.

Surviving Alcohol Detox

Before any person may begin the alcohol detox and rehabilitation process, they will first have to accept they have a problem with alcohol and that they need help. Another vital step patients will need to take in order to successfully recover from alcohol detox and rehab is to follow their aftercare program as closely as possible. This as they say is where the rubber meets the road. When reintegrating into regular life, you will need to have a rigid structure or routine you follow so you do not get lost in sobriety.

Start Your Alcohol Detox and Recovery Process Now

If you need alcoholism treatment and you are ready to regain control of your life, begin researching available treatments today. Make sure that you choose an alcohol addiction treatment that is appropriate for you and that will meet your specific needs and concerns. Alcoholism is a chronic and progressive addiction, so do not allow it to steal another minute of your life. Do not waste any more time, begin researching Ibogaine and/or Ibogaine treatment providers today.

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