New Maryland mental health initiative focuses on identifying and treating …
One day last summer, a former Navy reservist phoned police in Newport, R.I., to say someone was using a "microwave machine" to send vibrations through his body to keep him from sleeping. Six weeks later, the same man took a shotgun into the Washington …
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Malibu Vista Mental Health Treatment Center for Women Expands to Meet …
Malibu Vista is an exclusive residential mental health treatment center for women suffering from trauma, depression, anxiety, personality disorders and other psychiatric issues. Clients receive treatment in two private boutique-style residences in …
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Question by the MaRK: Was Obama serious when he said we need to extend unemployment payments for another year?
Quote from today’s Washington Times: “States that borrowed billions from Washington to cover skyrocketing unemployment payouts during the recession are now cutting benefits, adding fees, and in some cases, increasing taxes on employers in order to get the cash to repay the loans.”

There are lots of people out there who’ve been looking for work for a year or two, even three. While I feel for their plight, where is the money for the extension going to come from?
Well here’s a shocker, nobody knows where the money is going to come from, me either.

Best answer:

Answer by Ed Jasie
Very serious.

Answer by AverageJoe
It is NOT a jobs bill — it is “Son of Porkulus”

Public employers: OK to demand medical records if drug test leads to rehab
Those who wanted to keep their jobs entered treatment and rehabilitation programs. As a condition of treatment and continued employment, the men had to sign medical releases authorizing their doctors to provide treatment details while they were in rehab.
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The Great Debate
Horrigan, the Republican candidate for county executive, would like to expand education, treatment and wraparound programs for drug users, making it a community-wide effort. On the other hand, Johnson, the Democratic candidate for the position …
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Former drug users turn their lives around
Nguyen Van Minh, the department's deputy head, said that jobs and loans given to rehab patients had helped to prevent them from returning to drugs. The city has carried out many drug-rehab programmes, including a pilot project in districts 6,11 and Cu …
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Company building two drug rehab centers in south St. Louis
Preferred Family Healthcare is building two residential drug treatment centers in south St. Louis — one in the Dutchtown neighborhood, the other in Tower Grove South. The Dutchtown center, at 4066 Dunnica Avenue, will be for adults while the Tower …
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New York Drug Rehab Announces Services Now Available Through Drug …
Drug rehabilitation allows adults and adolescents a chance to get clean from their drug of choice, whether it is cocaine, heroin, marijuana, or prescription drugs. A part of this process is detoxification, cleansing out the physical body filled with …
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Question by Rev Run: Why do people say that once an alcoholic always an alcoholic?
So even if a person never has another drink they will always be an alcoholic? I don’t get it. How can a person be cured and still have the disease for the rest of their lives? I never hear people say once depressed always depressed or once with the flu always with the flu.

Best answer:

Answer by Crystal
They say that about everything, but it’s false.

Answer by W. Coastal Eddie
Because alcoholics crave alcohol. Just because they find a way to deny themselves the wonderful taste and feel of alchohol doesn’t mean that they’re not still craving it. They’ll always crave it (because it’s so good), they’ll just have to try to live their lives one day without a drink at a time- because they know that they can’t handle the stuff.
The flu- you get it, your immune system beats it up- it’s gone. Very different. Depression, I don’t know about. A couple of beers and I’m very happy.

Alcohol arrests up 96 percent from 2012
The Student Counseling Center offers both alcohol counseling and alcohol assessments. The residence halls offer alcohol awareness programming. Grieve also said a speaker USD hosted earlier this year brought over 1,000 students to learn about the …
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Corps ensures compliance with Alcohol Screening Program
That can include referral to Prime for Life education, a 16-hour program that addresses the health and safety risks associated with irresponsible and excessive alcohol consumption. In more serious cases, Marines can be sent to outpatient treatment, …
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Community service a cornerstone of sobriety, success in Winnebago County …
The alcohol component, the Safe Streets Treatment Options Program, allows people convicted of their second- and third-drunken driving offenses to participate in a probation and treatment program in exchange for a reduced jail sentence. The program was …
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Finding drug-free techniques to treat chronic pain
Last month, the US Food and Drug Administration put new warnings on extended-release opiates, such as OxyContin and Opana ER, to make clear that they should be used only as a last-resort treatment for those in severe continuous pain; that's because of …
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Question by Cesaria Barbarossa – 40K: How do you feel about Tiger and Jesse making infidelity an addiction problem that needs treatment, not scorn?
Also forgot Eric Benet, Halle Berry’s ex-husband who said he had a sex addiction and went ot treatment after cheating.

What do you think about this new trend that infidelity should be looked at as signs of an addiction that needs treatment. Does this give infidelity less of a stigma if it’s treated as a psychological problem, moreso than a problem of selfishness and lack of self-control?

Do you think this would fly in “real life?”

Best answer:

Answer by Caroline
Even though I was a psych major in college, I’d like to think I’m also a realist. Sex addiction, like alcoholism or drug addiction, may very well be a “condition” but I personally think no-one held a gun to Tiger’s head, he knew what he was doing, he certainly knew the possible consequences, and he CHOSE to do it anyway. And to me, a sex addict doesn’t create relationships, such as they are, like Tiger and Jesse did with their “other women”. So I think it’s complete BS. I feel sorry for the wives in all of those cases. I was cheated on by a boyfriend and it was totally humiliating so I can only imagine how Sandra, etc. feel because their humiliation is splashed all over the front page. Yea, they need treatment. With a Louisville Slugger. Jerks.

Answer by ♫ Mad Luv ♫
I think they should seek help for themselves I don’t think the act of doing that fixes anything tho.

New York Drug Rehab Announces Services Now Available Through Drug …
Counselors and therapists with many years of experience in the field of substance abuse treatment and addiction can help make the transition from addiction to recovery easier. These drug rehab staff members can rely on their personal and professional …
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Research Suggests Topiramate Could Treat Cocaine Addiction
The professor had previously found that topiramate was a safe and effective treatment for alcohol dependence when tested against placebo, and these latest results build upon previous research which found that cocaine-dependent men and women who …
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After relapse into addiction and 'roller coaster' of seeking relief from …
Bonnie Shippen began taking codeine at age 13 for menstrual cramps and, after a car accident, surgeries and an abusive marriage, found herself on morphine and eventually methadone. She's now on her second run through a program at the Addiction …
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