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TreatmentHelp Names 5 Best Value Teen Treatment Centers in New York City
TreatmentHelp Names 5 Best Value Teen Treatment Centers in New York City. TreatmentHelp a company that helps patients find a treatment center to overcome drug addiction names the top 5 treatment centers in New York City. Share on Twitter Share on …
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Bain Capital sees opportunity in methadone clinics
Bain paid $ 58 million to acquire the for-profit centers through CRC Health Corp., a California company it has owned since 2006. CRC Health is the biggest provider of substance abuse treatment and behavioral health services in the country. This foray …
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New Best Drug Rehabilitation Blog Post Looks at how Technology and Media
Best Drug Rehabilitation, which offers treatment programs and believes that having family close by during a stay in rehab can make a big difference in whether or not the process is successful, is looking at how technology and media affect drug and …
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Bain Capital sees opportunity in methadone clinics
Bain paid $ 58 million to acquire the for-profit centers through CRC Health Corp., a California company it has owned since 2006. CRC Health is the biggest provider of substance abuse treatment and behavioral health services in the country. This foray …
Read more on Boston Globe

Barriers Remain Despite Health Law's Push To Expand Access To Substance
Similarly, the vast majority of the substance abuse treatment in Colorado is located in centers with more than 16 beds, said Arthur Schut, chief executive officer of Denver-based Arapahoe House. There are ongoing conversations among treatment providers …
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Question by Solvieg’s Girl: Is homosexuality a “mental disease”?

Best answer:

Answer by MRose
Absolutely not!

Answer by nikkimarie918
My opinion is “no”

America's Heroin Epidemic: Where to Find Help
Find alcohol and drug abuse treatment or mental health treatment facilities and programs around the country using the Behavioral Health Treatment Services Locator on SAMHSA's web site. The Partnership at DrugFree.org provides a toll-free helpline and …
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St. Vincent's To Operate Addiction Treatment Program In Port Chester
The program is now known as the Port Chester Recovery Center, and will continue to be operated at 132 Pearl St. It will continue to provide outpatient addiction treatment services to adults and adolescents. The Port Chester Recovery Center can be …
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New Helpline in Wyandanch, NY Provides Assistance for Teenage Addiction
The Alcoholism Treatment Wyandanch Helpline is (631) 881-4327, and it is available to parents and teens 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The helpline was created to connect the teen addicts to skilled professionals who specialize in drug and alcohol abuse.
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Right Step Opens 'Women Only' Substance Abuse and Intimacy Disorders
Right Step addiction treatment center in Dallas/Ft. Worth opens the Substance Abuse and Intimacy Disorders program (SAID DFW) for women only. SAID DFW treats women who have relationship and intimacy issues that are undermining their ability to live …
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New Website For Summit Behavioral Health As They Launch New Facilities And
The treatment (flexible, holistic and personalized drug and alcohol addiction treatment) incorporate evidence-based treatment programs and dual diagnosis; provided in their facilities, as well as patients' chosen venues. Treatment depends on a patient …
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Finney County Community Health Coalition part of national pilot project
The Finney County Community Health Coalition, sponsored by St. Catherine Hospital, is leading a local effort to enhance community planning for dealing with concerns related to behavioral health, including mental health and substance use. Verna Weber …
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Alabama Legislature approves 'Carly's Law' – CBS46 News
The oil does not provide a high for users and neurologists say there's growing evidence that it helps control epilepsy and other neurological disorders that produce serious, debilitating and life-threatening seizures that cannot be controlled with …
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Addiction: Nature versus Nurture
For instance, half of all people diagnosed with bipolar disorder have also been diagnosed with a substance use disorder. Their increased risk for addiction has little to do with the way addictive substances and behaviors are experienced in the body …
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Medical examiner confirms latest fatal heroin overdose
The other drug, police Lt. Mark Newport said, was alprazolam, a prescription drug with the trade name Xanax that is used to treat anxiety and panic disorders. Newport said no heroin or drug paraphernalia was found at the scene of Sclafani's death, so …
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Bryan community development board seeks feedback on funding use
The city does help fund local nonprofit organizations like Project Unity, Brazos Valley Rehab Center, Brazos Valley Counseling Services, Family Promise and the Brazos Valley Council on Alcohol and Substance Abuse. The client count for those programs is …
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Few Residential Treatment Programs for Connecticut Adolescents
Many families have no choice but to send their child out-of-state for treatment, but the Harmons found a rehab for adolescents close to their Guilford home. In 2011, Rushford, an affiliate of Hartford Healthcare's behavioral health network, opened a …
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