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Lorain County Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services offers grief counseling
AVON LAKE — The need for grief counseling is even greater given a rash of drug overdoses last weekend across Lorain County, said Thomas Stuber, president and chief operating officer of Lorain County Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services. Stuber said …
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Drug Rehab La Vergne Implements Groundbreaking New Addiction Therapy …
The dedicated addiction counselors at Drug Rehab La Vergne recently saw a steady increase in the number of patients seeking help for addiction. The most disturbing aspect was the number of people looking for help who had already attempted to get sober …
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Brien counselor wins national award
In Atlanta on Oct. 13, NAADAC, a national association for addiction professionals, named Sugden the Lora Roe Memorial Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselor of the Year. It comes just months after she was named the addiction counselor of the year by the …
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Mayor Ford slated to give cenotaph speech; said to be mulling treatment
In another sign Toronto's embattled mayor intends to move forward with his business-as-usual message, Rob Ford is slated to deliver the main address at the city's Remembrance Day ceremony on Monday. As is customary, the mayor's remarks … of Toronto …
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At Clinics, Tumultuous Lives and Turbulent Care
He considered opioid addiction “a hopeless disease,” with patients leaving rehab and then relapsing and sometimes dying, until he started prescribing Suboxone, the brand-name drug whose main ingredient is buprenorphine, as a maintenance therapy in 2004 …
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Question by Maryy: What percent of rehabilitated people actually are cured?
ok so this is for a project….
does anyone know what percent of rehabilitated people get out and dont do the same mistake agian??? (i.e.- they would use drugs daily, went to rehab, then when they got out they quit completly)
i searched yahoo, google, and ask jeeves. i did all of my project and this is just a small part of it wich isnt really gonna be graded so keep your useless coments to yourself
Best answer:
Answer by raysny
Rehabs often claim amazing results, but the reality is less than spectacular.
According to Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_addiction
“The effectiveness of alcoholism treatments varies widely. When considering the effectiveness of treatment options, one must consider the success rate based on those who enter a program, not just those who complete it. Since completion of a program is the qualification for success, success among those who complete a program is generally near 100%. It is also important to consider not just the rate of those reaching treatment goals but the rate of those relapsing. Results should also be compared to the roughly 5% rate at which people will quit on their own. A year after completing a rehab program, about a third of alcoholics are sober, an additional 40 percent are substantially improved but still drink heavily on occasion, and a quarter have completely relapsed.”
That estimate is based on information from Dr. Mark Willenbring of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and in my opinion, optomistic.
” About 80 percent of addiction patients will relapse, studies suggest, and long-term success rates for treatment are estimated at 10-30 percent.
“The therapeutic community claims a 30 percent success rate, but they only count people who complete the program,” noted Joseph A. Califano Jr., of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. “Seventy to eighty percent drop out in three to six months.” ”
http://www.addictioninfo.org/articles/1633/1/Little-Evidence-that-Costly-Treatment-Programs-Work/Page1.html
90-95% of rehabs in the US are 12step-based. The rest are Scientology or religion-based.
The 12step treatment method has been shown to have about a 5% success rate, the same as no treatment at all:
Although the success rate is the same, AA harms more people than no treatment:
1) Dr. Brandsma found that A.A. increased the rate of binge drinking, and
2) Dr. Ditman found that A.A. increased the rate of rearrests for public drunkenness, and
3) Dr. Walsh found that “free A.A.” made later hospitalization more expensive, and
4) Doctors Orford and Edwards found that having a doctor talk to the patient for just one hour was just as effective as a whole year of A.A.-based treatment.
5) Dr. George E. Vaillant, the A.A. Trustee, found that A.A. treatment was completely ineffective, and raised the death rate in alcoholics. No other way of treating alcoholics produced such a high death rate as did Alcoholics Anonymous.
http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-letters85.html
1) http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-effectiveness.html#Brandsma
2) http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-effectiveness.html#Ditman
3) http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-effectiveness.html#Walsh
4) http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-effectiveness.html#Orford
5) http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-effectiveness.html#Vaillant
New Programs at Drug Rehab Carrollton Tackle Prescription Addiction
Long term abuse of prescription medications can cause significant damage to a person's health and overall well-being. Drug Rehab Carrollton is promoting the awareness of prescription drug abuse with their new, comprehensive treatment programs.
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Newton Medical Center improves treatment for mental health, substance abuse
NEWTON — Newton Medical Center has launched First Step, a new program to improve the health and well-being of those in Sussex County with both mental health and substance abuse disorders by closely combining treatment for the conditions. The new …
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Question by vinay: i need to promote drug rehabs centers site, its a client site how can i get traffic to this site?
this site related to various drug rehabs centers in United States, there is no traffic to this site, please share your views to improve traffic for these types of sites, urgent!
Best answer:
Answer by Fatcash
Have drug dealers stick a label with your website address on their baggies. 🙂
You will probably need to seek a online marketing professional, to help you with SEO ( Search Engine Optimization ) and you could also do PPC, Pay Per Click advertising, which is the ads on the sides of the search engines, And, when someone typed in a related topic like, “Find a drug rehab center” it would display your ad.
You could try drug rehab forums, and groups online, and advertise there as well.
Which, your website is a very broad, website, and many people seeking treatment, find a place locally in their phonebook. But, than again, there may be people out of state, or want to send their child or someone to an out of state rehab center that provides better treatment. So, your site may have potential.
Smethwick rehab centre on the move to save money
Smethwick rehab centre on the move to save money. A rehabilitation centre which helps 300 people kick drug and alcohol problems every week is being moved to cut costs, under plans unveiled today. Tweet. The facility will now be housed at the Alberta …
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Local doctor tackles Ottawa's drug 'epidemic' with new treatment centre
An Ottawa doctor is taking on the city's cocaine and opioid “epidemic” by opening up his own addiction treatment clinic in Vanier. Dr. Mark Ujjainwalla, who has been an addiction specialist for 25 years, says nearly 8,000 addicts in Ottawa tried to get …
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Police: Teen sodomized at East Hampton drug rehab facility
Police said they were called to the Phoenix House Academy in Wainscott, a drug rehabilitation and treatment center for adolescent males, at 5:10 p.m. on Sunday. When officers arrived, they found an 18-year-old male victim had been sexually assaulted.
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Demi Lovato opens up about bulimia, drug, and alcohol addictions
Demi Lovato is healthy and happy these days, but just three years ago, she was in rehab to treat her longtime eating disorders, self-cutting, and drug and alcohol addictions. Looking back, she's amazed at the progress she has made. "When I was in …
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Aussie Mums in NSW Suffering from Alcohol, Drug Addiction Could Lose …
The bill would require pregnant women who abuse drug or alcohol use to agree to Parental Responsibility Contracts that would enable them to access rehab services before they give birth. Refusal to seek treatment could make it easier for courts to …
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Alcohol Abuse, An Endemic Problem? Solutions?
This is all the more surprising – and disappointing – considering that in March of this year the Minister for Transport, Shawn Crockwell, spoke in parliament on certain policies that he would be developing specifically regarding alcohol abuse …
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Teens who drink alone more likely to develop alcohol problems as young adults
PITTSBURGH—Most teenagers who drink alcohol do so with their friends in social settings, but a new study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh reveals that a significant number of adolescents consume alcohol …
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Former 'Survivor: China' winner Todd Herzog has extremely severe alcohol …
By Elizabeth Kwiatkowski, 11/17/2013. Todd Herzog has an extremely severe alcohol addiction and will discuss his life-threatening struggle during an already-taped appearance on Dr. Phil on Monday.
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