Oregon finds efforts to treat drug addicts paying off
The program gives addicted parents residential treatment that allows them to stay with their children; it also provides intensive outpatient treatment, case management, peer mentoring and drug-free housing for parents and pregnant women. State …
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Richard Roper: Legalize pot and gamble with our kids' futures
We are facing the real possibility of more state-based legalization efforts, coupled with free-market, competitive forces bent on increasing supply and demand. It has long been anticipated that broad-based legalization would lead to mass … Addressing …
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Spirituality Linked To Mental Health 'Demons' Like Eating Disorders, Drug …
They also had a 77% higher chance of being dependent on drugs and were 37% more at risk of neurotic disorder. Spirituality was also associated with a 40% greater likelihood of receiving treatment with psychotropic drugs. Individuals of religious faith …
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Advocates seek stronger substance abuse treatment measures
LITTLE ROCK — Substance abuse costs Arkansas about $ 888 million annually, but just 6 percent of Arkansans who need help with a drug addiction actually receive treatment, according to two legislative task force reports. State lawmakers are being urged …
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Oregon finds efforts to treat drug addicts paying off
The Oregon Health Authority is spending about $ 51 million annually on substance abuse treatment — up $ 11 million from six years ago. Kentucky's Department of Behavioral Health, Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities spends $ 29 million a year, and …
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Treatment centers lack funding to help drug addiction
Many private insurance companies will not pay either. "Even though they'll pay for mental health treatment and things like that, substance abuse just has not been on the radar," said Hicks. For the most severe cases inpatient treatment may be what they …
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Guns? Mental Health? Really? Let's Talk About Psychopaths
The Mental Health Systems Act of 1980, prepared at the behest of Jimmy Carter, was not unflawed. …. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, Loughner had to be forcibly treated with antipsychotic drugs for over a year before he was even competent to stand trial.
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No Proof E-Cigarettes Combat Addiction
The e-cigarette is basically an electronic inhaler made up of a plastic cartridge that acts as a mouthpiece, a battery, a reservoir for a liquid aroma solution and an "atomizer" that vaporizes the liquid. Some of the aroma solutions … Roberta …
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New Florida law permits headlight flashing warnings
… to the department to fund safe houses and short-term safe houses. The remaining $ 500 will go, as it now does, for treatment-based drug court programs. Another law requires mortgage holders to release mortgage information to record title property …
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Kaufman: Mental health, drug abuse cuts are hurting community
Most of all we need the cuts in funding for mental health and substance abuse to stop. It is time to secure the financial resources to appropriately serve those in need. Joel Kaufman is CEO of The Starting Place, a nonprofit drug abuse prevention and …
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Our take: Left on the table
It could have wiped out smaller cuts in other programs, like drug treatment. Florida's uncollected debt for 2012 includes about $ 37 million in unpaid taxes, $ 31 million in overpaid unemployment benefits, $ 14 million in excessive reimbursements for …
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Ex-military dog works for Port Canaveral PD
… Afghanistan. LEFT: Lilly has her own trading cards. / Photos by Tim Shortt/FLORIDA TODAY … Veina said that with most police dogs, it is good when they find drugs because it can be taken off the streets, but with a bomb-sniffing dog, the desired …
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Local treatment facilities see increased demand with alcohol, prescription …
In Anne Arundel County, the number of people admitted into state-supported drug and alcohol treatment programs reached 3,570 in 2011, up from 2,824 in 2008, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. “It has increased …
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Once-a-month opiate addiction treatment little-used in Maine, clinic operators say
It also has been used since 2006 to treat alcohol dependence. Vivitrol is different from methadone, a narcotic that has been used for three decades as a maintenance tool that helps with cravings and withdrawals, and suboxone, a combination narcotic and …
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Rehab Center Starts Treating Smartphone Addicts
Nomophobia: the fear of being without technology. No, this isn't our attempt at an Onion-style satirical news piece. According to some mental health professionals, nomophobia — "no-mobile-phone-phobia" — is an actual disorder affecting millions of …
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Free Nicotine Replacement During Rehab Helps Patients Quit
"So we offered all of our inpatient substance use disorder patients free nicotine replacement therapy during their rehab." The findings were presented here at the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry (AAAP) 23rd Annual Meeting & Symposium.
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