Ind. substance abuse hospital to open women's drug-, alcohol-treatment center …
SHELBYVILLE, Indiana — An Indianapolis hospital that focuses on substance abuse has announced plans to open a drug- and alcohol-treatment center for women at a secluded central Indiana site that its chief executive says will become one of only a …
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Rehab center for drug addicts underway
It said that numbers of the addicts are increasing rapidly in areas like Suri Pul, Shahi Bagh area, Jail Bridge, Overhead Bridges, main Haji Camp, Lahori Adda, Kohat Bus Stand, hashtnagri Chowk, Nishtarabad and Karkhano market near Hayatabad.
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.3M federal grant leads to biz for drug abuse treatment centers
WestCare Florida of St. Petersburg and the Center for Rational Living in Clearwater will provide treatment and testing services for a special Pinellas-Pasco court program paid for with $ 1.3 million in grant money. Combating prescription drug problems …
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Treatment centers lack funding to help drug addiction
PRESTONSBURG, Ky. (WYMT) – Officials say prescription drug abuse is leading the drug epidemic. They say treating the addiction is key, but limited funding for treating substance abuse is making that difficult. "You wouldn't believe the amount of …
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How to beat your demons, literally: Siberian psychologists thrash patients …
Siberian psychologists claim they are helping drug, drink or sex addicts kick their habits by literally beating it out of them with corporal punishment. The painful treatment, which involves lashing addicts on the buttocks, could help cure drug-users …
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Drug scourge to receive attention from lawmakers
You can't beat drug abuse into submission. You just can't. It's got to be treated into submission.” All of society is vulnerable to the drug epidemic, as evidenced by the increased number of property crimes and robberies by the hooked people needing …
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Hawaii Teens Drug Abuse Facts
Hawaii is the ideal epitome of paradise. The state is known for its warm tropical climate, breathtaking natural scenery, and abundance of beautiful beaches that make it a popular destination for tourists from across the globe. But like the rest of the …
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Students design billboard to fight Rx drug abuse
PRESCRIPTON DRUG AWARENESS BILLBOARD in North Wilkesboro was designed by members of a substance abuse prevention group at Wilkes Central High School. Members include, left to right, adult mentor Dana Zacharias with Project Lazarus, Kendrick Horton …
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Lancaster apartments will house recovering addicts, kids
Hall, who lives in Lancaster, predicted that Pearl House will be as successful as its model in housing and treating parents recovering from drug and alcohol abuse while blending quietly into the surroundings. “Once people see it is not going to be a …
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Torn apart by drug abuse, family now reunited in recovery
Family Treatment Court: Superior Court supervises this program to help parents recover from drug use and reunify with children. 360-397-2304 or www.clark.wa.gov/courts/superior/therapeutic.html. • Lifeline Connections: Inpatient and outpatient …
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Had to retire early

Image by K. Kendall
Met this gentleman at the acupuncture clinic this afternoon. He’s there for his hands.

"It’s my work," he told me. "I was in automobile body repair, always using my hands, banging them up. I had to quit working. Got carpal tunnel, couldn’t use my hands no more. Started doing auto body work when I was a kid. My grandfather taught me. He was Native American, all my people are Native. We moved here forty years ago when the shipyards was hiring. But that wasn’t my real work. My real work always was advocacy for Native people. Started an alcohol recovery clinic right after I moved to Portland, and later my son, my daughter, my grandson, even my great-grandkid used it. Glad it was there for them. That was my real work. I still do that work. You ought to see me in my headdress. Everybody likes to take pictures of that. We got a special school going right now, about to graduate sixteen kids. They never would have finished high school nowhere else. That’s my real work. But I can’t use my hands no more. Used ’em up, I guess."

Sorry for the terrible quality. Dark clinic waiting room, only had my pocket camera. Here’s a moment when I wished for the Nikon. But then again, if I’d hauled out that big brick of a computer-on-a-rope, it would have changed the whole energy in the waiting room. The pocket camera is discreet. Quiet. Doesn’t call attention to itself.

Ebony Lifeline aims at addiction prevention, recovery among minorities
If you have decided this is the year you want to try to eradicate the demons of addiction and alcoholism, consider giving Ebony Lifeline Support Group a call. The group began as a grass-roots movement in 1984 through the efforts of founders Bob Thomas …
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Recovery from alcohol addiction should be cause for celebration, not …
Me and my Daddy were sitting side by side looking out the big kitchen window, instead of looking at one another. We hated to see the other cry. “I'm going into treatment at Washington Way I can be an out patient with the support group of AA. I hope I …
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Addiction: Recovering addicts reach out to others
Addictions can run the gamut from gambling, shopping and overeating, to alcohol and drug abuse. Three recovering addicts share their stories of addiction and recovery here in their own words, in the hopes of inspiring others to start anew in the coming …
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Lancaster apartments will house recovering addicts, kids
It will be adjacent to the Recovery Center, which treats drug abusers and recently renovated and moved into the vacant former Lancaster Hardware & Supply building. “We wanted a campuslike environment so people could go right to the Recovery Center,” …
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Newton: Putting children first
The other day, I talked to Leslie Heimov, executive director of the Children's Law Center, about the changes Browning is making in the department. When I laid out the approach he'd described to me, she agreed with many of his … had ordered that the …
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How some criminals get legal firearms
Thompson was also a cocaine addict and a drunk. By 2007 he was buying and using crack cocaine on a daily basis. He'd drive into Rochester, visit a popular street-corner drug area, and purchase multiple eight-balls. Low on cash and behind on child …
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