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Question by georgia t: I’m looking for a long term drug rehab. that takes children of drug users.?
in new york state

Best answer:

Answer by TweetyBird
Are the children also substance abusers???

You might want to check with your county mental health department or just run a search for “long-term drug rehab in New York”. I found several sites for private facilities. You will, too.

Answer by Cammie
The children of drug abusers do not need rehab.

Aldon Smith puts Jim Harbaugh's “above reproach” stance to the test
Last year, 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh took notice of the rival Seahawks having players suspended for violating the NFL's performance-enhancing drug policy, and Harbaugh used the Seahawks' troubles as an opportunity to explain his own philosophy about …
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Aldon Smith released from custody after posting 000 bail
49ers CEO Jed York said last month that the team thought Smith was doing well after his rehab stint and that the team didn't want to “make it more stick than carrot” when it came to making sure he remained out of trouble in the future. The team said it …
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A Freewheeling Pursuit of Spontaneity on Film
Reviewing the film for The New York Times, Jeannette Catsoulis described it as “a profoundly awkward riff on dysfunction that's uneventful but not unrewarding,” adding, “It's the small moments that win you over.” Photo. Sheila Etxeberría and Ed Ryan in …
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Trace Adkins: Battling Alcoholism in Rehab
With the pressures and emotions of the music industry, it's not hard to see how a superstar like Trace Adkins could wind up addicted to alcohol. The much-loved country music singer entered a rehabilitation clinic to deal with his alcoholism this week …
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People: Dennis Rodman to undergo alcohol rehab
Dennis Rodman has checked into an undisclosed alcohol rehabilitation center to treat his long-time struggle with alcoholism, his agent said. Darren Prince declined on Saturday to say which facility will treat Rodman and how long he will be there …
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Vikings great Robert Smith meets alcoholism head-on
And when San Francisco linebacker Aldon Smith checked into rehabilitation after a second arrest in two years on suspicion of DWI, it offered an ideal opportunity. So on Nov. 1, 2013, 1-1/2 years after Smith's last drink, he appeared on the show. For …
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New Approaches to Substance Abuse Treatment at Drug Rehab Cookeville
This has led to the facility to update and improve its treatment methods. The innovative new approach is helping more people overcome their addictions and start living productive lives. Drug Rehab Cookeville counselor Leigh Ann K. says the new programs …
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Justin Blackmon Suspended Indefinitely for Violation of Substance Abuse Policy
… broke the news: Blackmon suspended indefinitely without pay for violating the NFL Policy and Program for Substances of Abuse. … San Francisco 49ers star defensive end Aldon Smith recently was released from an alcohol treatment center. 6:23 PM ET …
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Soldiers battle addiction after the horrors of war
Kevin's lost count of how many times he's relapsed after a 28-day alcohol detox, psych ward admissions and rehabilitation programs, but guesses it's more than 15. He was an occassional drinker before conscription and deployment, where …. of veterans …
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Leading Off: Should the 49ers allow Smith to play?
Linebacker Aldon Smith is back on the 49ers' 53-man roster after a reported stint at an inpatient facility for substance abuse. That means he can … Only Smith, and maybe the professionals involved with his treatment, know the depth of his problems …
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A Forever Recovery Looks at 3 Most Common Rehab Treatments in Latest Blog
Inpatient Rehabilitation: this method of treatment takes place in a residential facility, and offers clients continuous access to professionally trained and experienced medical, counseling and support staff, which can include: psychiatrists, social …
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Purdy: Letting 49ers' Aldon Smith play this season would be a bad idea
And now, with his inpatient treatment evidently behind him, he's back on the team's 53-man roster. It's not as if the 49ers are desperate for his services. The last game they lost was the last one in which Smith played. I am assuming Smith is sincere …
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With Addiction, Breaking A Habit Means Resisting A Reflex
"It's a reflex. They don't have to think about it," O'Brien tells Weekend Edition host Rachel Martin. There have been many advances in treatment, he says, including medication that can minimize the euphoria an alcoholic feels when drinking. But O'Brien …
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Smith will seek treatment for substance abuse, miss Rams game
SAN FRANCISCO — All-Pro outside linebacker Aldon Smith will be out indefinitely as he seeks treatment for substance abuse, sources said. Smith, the 49ers' MVP last season, will not play Thursday night against the St. Louis Rams. He issued the …
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Social Innovation Fellows Class of 2012

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Jamila Abass – MFarm
As CEO of MFarm, Jamila Abass uses mobile technology to help farmers increase their incomes. MFarm provides farmers in Kenya with real-time market price information and a group selling platform where they can connect with other farmers to jointly market their crops in greater volumes. By giving rural farmers more direct and powerful access to buyers, MFarm is positioned to improve hundreds of thousands – and potentially millions – of lives.
www.mfarm.co.ke/

Lukas Biewald – CrowdFlower
Lukas Biewald is CEO and founder of CrowdFlower, a crowdsourcing internet company that breaks large digital projects into small microtasks and distributes them to workers around the world. CrowdFlower engages a workforce of nearly 3.5 million people to complete more than 2 million tasks every day. In a key example, Biewald helped PopTech Science Fellow Sarah Fortune find new ways to study the bacteria that cause tuberculosis. By sharing the workload, making it fun and insisting on quality results, CrowdFlower provides incomes while speeding the path toward more accurate and scalable results.
crowdflower.com/

Rachel Brown – Sisi ni Amani – Kenya
Rachel Brown founded Sisi ni Amani – Kenya ("We are Peace – Kenya" in Swahili) to pioneer the use of mobile technology to get the right communication capacity into the hands of local peacebuilders, enabling communities to participate in democratic processes and prevent violence. Through civic education, engagement and dialogue, SNA-K leverages SMS text messaging to support the peace efforts of community leaders. As a key partner in the collaborative PeaceTXT project, SNA-K is working to make locally effective tools that can be replicated globally in stopping violence and building peace.
sisiniamani.org/

Bryan Doerries – Outside the Wire
Bryan Doerries is the founder of Theater of War, a project that presents readings of ancient Greek plays to service members, veterans, caregivers and families to help them start talking about the challenges faced by military communities today. He is also the co-founder of Outside the Wire, LLC, a social impact company that uses theater and a variety of other media to address pressing public health issues, such as combat-related psychological injury, end of life care, prison reform, political violence and torture, and the de-stigmatization of the treatment of substance abuse and addiction. A self-described evangelist for classical literature and its relevance to our lives today, Doerries uses age-old approaches to help heal very modern wounds.
www.outsidethewirellc.com/

Toure McCluskey – OkCopay
Toure McCluskey is the founder of OkCopay, a unique search engine for medical procedures that helps Americans with inadequate insurance find affordable local health care. At OkCopay, people can quickly search for the procedure they need, compare local providers, and view actual provider prices and details on the appropriate health clinic. By bringing transparency to healthcare costs, OkCopay is ensuring that those most in need can find effective and reasonable health services.
www.okcopay.com/

Nicholas Merrill – Calyx Institute
Nicholas Merrill created the Calyx Institute to help launch a telecommunications and Internet service provider focused on the right to privacy and freedom of expression. Merrill has personally fought intrusive government demands for private customer information, and he aims to develop, document and publicly release technology to enable private communications that even the service provider cannot decode or eavesdrop upon. Merrill’s goal is to inhibit mass surveillance and to protect the privacy and security of users everywhere.
www.facebook.com/calyxinstitute

Jacobo Quintanilla – Internews
Jacobo Quintanilla joined Internews to bring news and information resources to people in humanitarian crises. As Director of Humanitarian Information Projects, Quintanilla has helped create a two-way dialogue between aid workers and affected communities in countries such as Haiti, Central African Republic and Kenya. Building on Internews’ core mission, Quintanilla’s projects empower local media in crisis situations to give people the news and information they need, the ability to connect, and the means to make their voices heard.
internews.org/

Andreas Raptopoulos – Matternet
Andreas Raptopoulos is the founder and CEO of Matternet, building a network of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to transport medicine and goods in places with poor road infrastructure. Matternet’s "drones for good" use small, electric UAVs to transport packages weighing up to 2 kilos and containing items like vaccines, medicines or blood samples, over distances of 10 kilometers at a time. By creating a new paradigm for transportation that leapfrogs roads, Matternet is helping to revolutionize transportation in the developing world.
matternet.us/

Aishwarya Lakshmi Ratan – Global Financial Inclusion Initiative
As director of the Global Financial Inclusion Initiative at Yale University and Innovations for Poverty Action, Aishwarya Ratan focuses on the design and delivery of effective financial services for the poor. GFII seeks to test, evaluate and replicate interventions to improve products, delivery channels and tools ranging from savings products to mobile money and financial literacy programs. The initiative’s rigorous approach to testing and measuring the impact of such innovations aims to ensure that the financial services available to the poor to manage and grow their money are affordable, efficient, secure and welfare-enhancing.
www.poverty-action.org/financialinclusion

Eric Stowe – A Child’s Right / Splash
Eric Stowe believes that every child has a right to clean water—and he has built an innovative, scalable approach to act on that belief. Since founding A Child’s Right (soon to be Splash) in 2006, Stowe has developed a highly effective model to ensure safe water for urban children living at the intersection of these two streets: “greatest degrees of poverty” and “worst water quality conditions.” Leveraging world-class water purification technology, sustainable monitoring and maintenance, excellent people, and a rigorous commitment to transparency, A Child’s Right will soon announce that every orphanage in China has safe drinking water. Stowe’s team will then demonstrate how they are customizing their approach for 15 more countries in Asia and East Africa, using their "Proving It" platform to share both successes and failures at all of their project sites.
achildsright.org/

Eric Woods – Switchboard
Eric Woods is the CEO and founder of Switchboard, which uses mobile phones to create nationwide networks of health workers in developing countries. Switchboard partners with mobile operators to provide health workers with free nationwide calling, a nationwide registry and access to information via bulk text messaging. Having already linked all doctors in both Ghana and Liberia, Switchboard will next connect health workers at all levels throughout Tanzania, working toward the vision of a collaborative network of health advice, referrals and improved care in places where access is most challenging.
www.switchboard.org/

Daniel Zoughbie – Microclinic International
Daniel Zoughbie created Microclinic International to help leverage the power of social network relationships to spread healthy behaviors throughout under-resourced communities. Working in Jordan, India, Kenya, the West Bank and the United States, Microclinic International has begun to show that working through existing social groups of friends and family can significantly help people improve their outcomes in the fight against such diseases as diabetes and HIV/AIDS. The effectiveness of their approach is attracting attention from governments and other large-scale health providers, opening the door to large-scale replication and the broader use of this "contagious health" approach.
microclinics.org/

Christie and wife honored at gala for drug treatment center
SOMERSET — Eleven years ago, Craig Hanlon was invited to speak to teenagers about how he overcame a crack addiction, thanks to the residential treatment program at Daytop Village in Mendham. "I went there with the hope that somehow I could touch …
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Report: Aldon Smith To Be Treated For Substance Abuse After Today's Game
Chris Mortensen reports that "a consensus" has been reached regarding 49ers linebacker Aldon Smith, who crashed his car Friday morning, allegedly failed a breathalyzer, and allegedly had pills and weed in his possession at the time of the crash: Smith …
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