Selena Gomez Admits Secret Rehab Stint
Selena Gomez admits secret rehab stint
ESSENCE – (10-02-2014). Selena Gomez admits secret rehab stint z_p14-Selena.jpg … According to its website, Dawn at The Meadows specializes in patients ages 18-26 who are struggling with emotional trauma, addiction, or dual diagnosis concerns. The …
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Initiative seeks to reduce overuse of psychiatric drugs in children
Rather than continuing to treat her son's anxiety with a prescription drug that caused side effects, Esther Hawkins worked with his doctor to find other options. Jay, a 14-year-old from Wooster who also has … Dr. Steven Jewell, vice president and …
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Mayor Ed Lee Raises Prospect of Adopting Form of Laura's Law
Mayor Ed Lee raises prospect of adopting form of Laura's Law
He was talking about – at least in some form – Laura's Law, the much-debated and little-used state law passed in 2002 that allows a judge to order outpatient treatment for the seriously mentally ill. Efforts to implement it in San Francisco under …
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Addiction Treatment Specialists Say Heroin Deaths Avoidable
And it happens very quickly,” said Allegra Schorr, an owner of the West Midtown Medical Group, an outpatient addiction-treatment center in Manhattan, and president of the Committee of Methadone Program Administrators of New York State. Physician Stuart …
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Diane Dimond: Heroin Is Making a Comeback, and the Epidemic Affects Us All
Diane Dimond: Heroin Is Making a Comeback, and the Epidemic Affects Us All
“The time has come for us to stop quietly averting our eyes from the growing heroin addiction in our front yards,” Shumlin said, “while we fear and fight treatment facilities in our backyards.” For those readers who think this topic doesn't touch their …
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Marin writer laments actor Philip Seymour Hoffman's death in Time column
Hoffman is said to have checked into a rehab facility last May because he had relapsed with heroin. What is not publicly known is whether he sought counseling after detoxifying. That is an important detail in understanding Hoffman's plight, since rehab …
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Drug Companies Have Complex, Sometimes Fatal Relationship With Cancer …
Drug Companies Have Complex, Sometimes Fatal Relationship With Cancer …
Sloan's doctors said it was her best and perhaps only chance to survive. The drug has not yet been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, but agency officials said they would provide a waiver to her for "compassionate use" of the treatment if …
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Northern New England tackles growing drug problem
But while Shumlin and Hassan see improving treatment and halting addiction before it begins as the way forward, LePage offered a different strategy for combating drug abuse by ramping up law enforcement efforts to "hunt down dealers and get them off …
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Faith–based Center Helps Those Fighting Addictions
Faith–based center helps those fighting addictions
… who shared their personal testimonies of drug addiction and salvation at a pancake breakfast at the New Creation Restoration Center in Troup. The center, 1204 W. Noble St., is a nonprofit, faith-based, 12-month chemical dependency treatment program.
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Rob Ford, behind the scenes: “He won't give up the blow”
She's meeting with an acquaintance, a former drug addict, to get some advice. … “He's a public figure, for Jesus Christ,” John says. “There's a …. Under the previous Miller regime, she had been a leader in a group of centre-right councillors who …
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Family Sues Dr. Phil, Treatment Center
Family sues Dr. Phil, treatment center
SYRACUSE, Utah — The family of a teenage girl who claims she was berated on television by Dr. Phil and then sent to a residential treatment center in Utah where she was falsely imprisoned, has filed a civil lawsuit. Terri and David Myers, on behalf of …
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Council approves Main Street Inn rehab rezoning
A large number of residents — many opposed to a controversial plan to rezone the Main Street Inn & Spa to allow for a residential treatment center for addition and depression — attended a Feb. 4, 2014, Hilton Head Island Town Council meeting in which …
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