COMMENTS | Update on Kitsap County's mental health sales tax funding
… include intervention, assessment, referral and treatment support. • Professional development for educators, youth development and community agencies on youth mental health and substance abuse issues, concerns and supportive intervention strategies.
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Synanon's Sober Utopia: How A Drug Rehab Program Became A Violent Cult
The Game was the medicine administered later, a kind of group therapy invented by Dederich where people sat in a circle to express (and often shout) their frustrations at each other. The confrontational approach was a way to … the group. But it would …
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Priest steps back from opening house for recovering addicts
In the basement of St. Charles Borromeo, dozens of drug addicts and alcoholics and their family members meet weekly to vent, cry, laugh, and smile. Stabeno, a 14-year … the vision. Three of the group's founders lost their children to addiction …
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