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Sarah Gentry, clinical director of women's treatment services at Hanley Center.
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Her specializations in trauma resolution, eating disorders, violence and relationship issues help many women seeking treatment for addiction. Previously, Gentry, a licensed mental health counselor and certified addictions professional, was a private …
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In First Post-Rehab Interview, The Situation Confirms Plans to Continue Clubbing
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The Situation sat down with MTV News for his first interview since voluntarily seeking treatment for an addiction to prescription medication at the tony Cirque Lodge in Utah. Sitch says that he was strictly addicted to pain killers for the energy they …
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Facility to offer mental health, addiction-treatment services
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21 at 7625 Hospital Drive offering mental-health care and addiction treatment for adults and senior citizens. The facility is expected to create more than 100 health-care related jobs such as licensed and certified social workers, chemical dependency …
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Prescription drug abuse on the rise
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In exchange for completing treatment, Sanders said his criminal charges were dropped. After two years sober and clean from drug abuse Sanders, now 35 years old, works at Herring Houses treatment center in Dothan. “I'd been trying for 10 or 12 years to …
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Addiction treatment for transgender people
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A one-of-a-kind treatment center where transgender people can free themselves of addictions is about to open in Philadelphia. By Don Sapatkin (left) and Zerandrian Morris in a lounge at the eight-bed Morris Home, in the Southwest section of the city.
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Thousands treated annually for addiction
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Lin, 60, of a Raceland resident, recently returned from her second stay at the state's free inpatient treatment plan for compulsive gambling, Center of Recovery in Shreveport. It's been three months since she's last gambled.
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by Talk Radio News Service

Question by who knows: petra thank you for your fast fast answer… and very good… but?
how does one “treat” addiction? i know there’s aa, but altho he was a member for many years, he won’t go any more. is there truly a “treatment” for addiction if he’s not drinking any more? he refuses to see counselors that have been provided for free by the state of texas, or that are paid for by myself. and he’s the one who asked me to set up the appoinment. when i did and paid for the intake, he said he wasn’t going to go.

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To first understand opioid addiction, you must first understand what opioids are. The term opioid refers to any drug or chemical that attaches (like a key fits into a lock) to sites in the brain called opioid receptors. The human body makes its own opioids (called endorphins) but the opioids we are concerned with when we talk about opioid addiction are those that are manufactured in a laboratory or made by plants. For instance, morphine and codeine are found in the extract (the opium) of seeds from the poppy plant, and this opium is processed into heroin. Most prescription painkillers like oxycodone, hydrocodone, and hydromorphone are synthesized in the laboratory. When a person becomes dependent upon these drugs, they need opioid addiction treatment.

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Client Testimony for Valiant Recovery, Addiction Treatment program

After being to 4 other drug and alcohol treatment programs including Passages this client came to Valiant Recovery. Here is what he had to say about our Luxury Rehab, and his experience.

State of Addiction: Cash-Strapped State Rehabs are Looking for a Fix
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By Logan Layden Oklahoma was one of the country's biggest abusers of prescription medications last year, news that comes after several years of budget cuts that have reduced state treatment programs. Dramatic TV news coverage can make it look like …
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Collaborative Preclinical Efficacy Studies Suggest a New Target for Drug …
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"Currently, there are no therapeutics approved to treat addiction to stimulants such as cocaine, so it is intriguing to find a promising drug receptor target and to see that AT-1001 can indeed affect phenomena that are thought to be deeply tied to the …
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In May of 2006 HBO, USA Today and The Gallup Poll asked US adults, who had an immediate family member with a drug or alcohol addiction whether they thought addiction was a disease.

Three-quarters of U.S. adults who have a family member suffering from a drug or alcohol addiction think that addiction is a disease.

Whether you agree or disagree alcoholism was first recognised as a disease as early as 1785, by Dr. Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence and physician of George Washington’s Army.

In his widely dispersed essay on “the effects of ardent spirits,” Rush clearly called intemperance a disease and, an addiction.

Seeing addiction as a chronic disease may be a hotly debated topic, however if it makes addiction treatment more easily accessible and helps the addict to structure their life around the problem, surely it makes sense to regard addiction as analogous to a chronic disorder?    Read more...