Addiction Counseling: Parkridge Valley Counselor Receives Counselor of the Year Award

Parkridge Valley counselor receives Counselor of the Year Award
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Liz Gates, a Parkridge Valley counselor, recently received the Counselor of the Year Award from the Southeast Tennessee Association for Addiction Professionals. Gates was nominated by her fellow professionals in Southeast Tennessee, and she is actively …
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Online gaming addictions growing more serious
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Futoko Shien Center, a Nagoya-based association offering counseling services for truants, said it had received 327 individual requests for consultation for online game addiction from the beginning of this year to July. Zenkoku Web Counseling Kyogikai, …
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Genetic counseling benefits relatives of schizophrenia patients
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"To our knowledge, this is the first study that formally demonstrates the feasibility and worth of genetic counseling for schizophrenia in community mental health practice," write Anne Bassett (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario …
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Addiction Counseling at Alcohol and Drug Treatment Center Fellowship Training


Dr. Velayudhan describes why she chose to become an addiction counselor at Brighton Center for Recovery alcohol and drug treatment center, site of the first addiction fellowship training program in the USA outside of a medical school. The best drug and alcohol addiction help is what Brighton is all about. Brighton Center for Recovery is the second oldest alcohol treatment program in the United States and the first to be licensed in Michigan . A national leader in drug and alcohol treatment and counseling services that began in the early 1950’s. Additionally, we treat addictions to: meth, marijuana, pot, crack, heroin, cocaine, speed, oxycontin, coke, prescription pain pills, ecstasy, plus. Our clinics’ rehabilitation treatment programs include: dual diagnosis treatment, teen and young adult, CEO,lawyer and judges recovery, 30-60-90 day recovery programs, and men’s and women’s halfway houses.

 

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