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SWFAS, Lee Mental Health Center considering consolidation
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… expected to lead to the formation of a new mental health and substance abuse treatment agency for thousands of individuals and families in Lee County. Officials with Lee Mental Health Center and Southwest Florida Addiction Services announced Monday …
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But as a licensed counselor at WestCare, a substance-abuse treatment center in St. Petersburg, Fla., Jacobsen recognized the family's signs of classic codependency. "It is a family disease … (parents) enable them to continue in both worlds," she said.
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Veteran races in wheelchair to support vets in recovery at Race to Restore …
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Giorgio said he broke that addiction in 2010 after Treatment Center CEO Bill Russell paid for Giorgio to spend 60 days at the treatment center. He now lives in Orlando with his wife and two children and works with homeless veterans. Russell said …
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Guest column: Parents must be involved in combatting substance abuse
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As many of you may be aware, Libertas Treatment Center provides inpatient and outpatient substance abuse services to adolescents and outpatient services to adults. It has been my privilege for more than 20 years to lead a dedicated and professional …
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Synthetic drug-use in Europe at all-time high: agency
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While cocaine and cannabis remain the most popular illicit drugs, new synthetic substances are being detected at a rate of about one a week — a fast-rising trend, according to the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA). A …
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Internet overuse risks making addicts of us
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Problematic internet use has been considered a potential mental health issue since the mid-1990s in the US and Europe, with people exhibiting similar symptoms to other established addictions. Studies have shown that young, introverted men are most at …
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Husband Asks Me to Join Him in Watching Porn
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Recently i found my husband chatting with a married woman sexually for a about a month and pursuing her through internet for nearly 5 years. When I found out and cornered him he confessed to it and …. It is called Sex Addict Treatment. I believe that …
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Heroin appeals to addicts hooked on pain pills
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Nearly 75 percent of their patients are seeking treatment for heroin addiction. He says opiate addiction is difficult to treat. He says addicts often are self medicating for pain but become so addicted they need their drugs to feel normal. "Of course …
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Call for drug tests to trap patient dealers
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Another addiction medicine specialist, Philip Crowley, said urine testing patients on opioids should be standard treatment. ''There's a strong economic incentive to sell these drugs. You can sell one Kapanol [morphine] tablet for up to $ 80 so if you …
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Question by Jack: Why are the conditions in most mental hospitals awful?
Some are even dangerous e.g. patients can often be at risk from other patients. And I’m not even talking about the ones that use electric shock “treatment”.

My question is how are mental hospitals actually supposed to HELP patients? I would think that feeling unsafe and being around people that scream and bang their heads off walls and stuff would make anyone’s mental problem 10 times worse?

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Answer by asp2write
First, they aren’t all like that, but the ones that are, they are usually public funded, where the patients are unwanted by anyone else, so there is no one to complain about the bruises, or the filth, they are just deposited there to die, it really pretty sad, we need better laws that both check up on, and punish these places.    Read more...