Posts Tagged ‘health care’

One addict helping another is the best route to recovery
The other day I visited a really remarkable organisation in Lambeth, south London, which is dedicated to helping drug and alcohol addicts to get their lives on track. What is impressive about the Aurora project is that it shows the power of one addict …
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Helpline in Dobbs Ferry Aids in Drug and Alcohol Abuse Recovery
A new helpline in Dobbs Ferry, NY benefits teens in search of help overcoming drug and alcohol abuse. LIGHTNING RELEASES (4/7/2014) – Alcoholism is a serious illness. Will power is good to have, but unfortunately, for teens facing a drug or alcohol …
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Doctors, medical staff on drugs put patients at risk
Drug abuse not uncommon among medical professional…: America's prescription drug epidemic reaches deep into the health care community. Across the country, tens of thousands of doctors, nurses, medical technicians and other health professionals …
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County groups try to bridge gaps in mental health needs
Melanie White, NAMI's executive director for Seneca, Sandusky and Wyandot counties, said more than 30 officials from the area's law enforcement, substance abuse prevention and mental health fields met in October 2013 at a sequential intercept mapping …
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Mindfulness Offers Young Adults the Same Protection Against Substance Abuse …
Eric Schmidt has worked in the behavioral health and substance abuse field for the past 20 years. He served primarily in key executive level positions for community-based behavioral health care/substance abuse treatment organizations. Eric boasts both …
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The American salutes eight excellence awardees in health care
Richelle Clark, BSN, MHA, MBA, joined the Center for Community and Health Partnerships at Washington University a year ago as its co-director, after spending more than a decade leading health services for St. Louis Public Schools. Clark's role at the …
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What were you reading? The Monitor's 15 most-read stories of March
An employee weighs portions of retail marijuana to be packaged and sold at 3D Cannabis Center in Denver, Tuesday Dec. 31, 2013. … “Concord Christian Academy postpones event with 'Duck Dynasty' star Phil Robertson” by Megan Doyle. Published …
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Report: Mass. Mental Health Services 'Way Behind'
BOSTON — Massachusetts is “way behind” in its delivery of mental health services with treatment options hampered by budget cuts since 2009, inadequate funding for police training and a shortage of inpatient psychiatric beds that is putting stress on …
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"When people enter the service, there's not a mental health evaluation."
But there was some bipartisan consensus that the military should take a closer look at the mental health of enlisted service members. On Fox News Sunday, Rep. Michael McCaul, a Texas Republican who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee, said …
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Fort Hood Shooting Renews Attention To Mental Health Services
… about mental health care for soldiers and veterans. Derek Bennett, the chief of staff at Iraq And Afghanistan Veterans Of America, joins Here & Now's Robin Young to discuss ongoing efforts to improve mental health services for members of the military.
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AP News in Brief at 8:58 pm EDT
In the course of Marchese's five-year battle with heroin, the Blackwood, N.J., man was repeatedly denied admission to treatment facilities, often because his insurance company wouldn't cover the cost. Then one night in June 2010, a strung-out Marchese …
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Waterbury Regional Chamber Elects 5 New Board Members
Loyal members celebrating 50 years of membership include Easter Seals Rehabilitation Center of Greater Waterbury and Holiday Hill; 40 years are M.J. Fahy & Sons, Inc. and Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co.; 35 years is VNA Health Care; …
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New Adolescent Helpline Provides Teens in Tarrytown, NY with Addiction …
Teen rehab centers are facilities that teens with any kind of addiction should feel comfortable to going to. They treat teens with alcohol addictions, cocaine addictions, marijuana addictions, prescription drug addictions, and many other. Call the …
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The Effects of Drug Abuse During Pregnancy — View the infographic as a flat image here: http://www.12keysrehab.com/blog/this-is-your-baby-on-drugs-infographic Did you know that over 176200 babies in th…

Despite Affordable Care Act, a gaping hole in addiction treatment
“This is the beginning of substance abuse disorders being part of mainstream health care,” said Thomas McLellan, former U.S. deputy drug czar and now chief executive officer of the Treatment Research Institute in Philadelphia. Serious impediments to …
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EDITORIAL: Fighting substance abuse is team effort
One of those agencies, the Porter County Substance Abuse Council, has been taking a funding hit after 25 years of helping fight illegal drugs. The council gives more than $ 100,000 each year to government and other efforts to fight substance abuse. The …
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