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For more than three decades, Project Ninety, Inc. has served individuals, families and the Bay Area community through its residential alcohol and substance abuse treatment services. What began in 1972 as a humble idea has grown into a premier human services organization with over 200 treatment beds. We are a California Alcohol and Drug Programs (ADP) licensed, nonprofit residential substance abuse treatment program with facilities in two Northern California counties (Santa Clara and San Mateo). Through the years, Project Ninety has treated more than 20000 individuals suffering from the disease of addiction. Project Ninety’s services are designed to treat the diverse communities in which we live. We provide services to adult men and women whose circumstances are varied. They might be homeless, highly educated/skilled, and straight from prison or jail, unemployable or have limited language skills. All these people have an addiction to substances in common, regardless of their socioeconomic standing, race, cultural background, education, age, or their life experience. Is treatment cost effective? Research has shown that every dollar spent on substance abuse treatment saves seven dollars in other taxpayer-supported services. These tax-driven services include frequent emergency room visits, use of emergency responders, psychiatric services and jails/prisons — just to name a few. Statistics also indicate that approximately eleven million children in the United States live in …    Read more...

Drug therapy for drug addiction?
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County recovery programs have begun experimenting with more drug therapy for a new wave of younger opiate addicts who are resisting traditional treatments. Arnold's take? “It makes you lazy. We're going to create an army of zombies,” he says. “In my …
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Recovering Addicts Decry Planned Closing Of Faulkner Detox
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The hospital plans to open a new clinic to treat patients with Suboxone, a drug used to ease withdrawal from narcotics. According to MacDonald, clinicians are seeing more people with complex addictions, including those addicted to multiple kinds of …
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Methadone clinic reaches out to Tomah heroin abusers
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"Most of (our investigator's) time was taken up with drug investigations," Revels said. AMS advocates a medication-assisted treatment program to help opiate addicts kick their addiction. "Its purpose is to bring people who are abusing opiates—whether …
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Sheriff phasing out DARE program
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It's phasing out the national Drug Abuse Resistance Education program. DARE is a comprehensive drug and violence prevention education program based upon a belief that the only way to combat drug abuse and addiction is through early education and …
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Cowlitz County struggling to reverse rise in overdose deaths
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Elizabeth Vaughn, epidemiologist for the Cowlitz County Health Department, said the county is continuing to support its local partnerships with Awakenings, Cowlitz Tribal Treatment, the Drug Abuse Prevention Center and other programs. “We're always …
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First responders get drug lab lesson
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It was an update of training he did across the province a few years ago for people who put themselves in risky situations, such as firefighters, front-line police officers, emergency medical services responders, social workers and drug addiction …
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State Spending Habit Still Out Of Control
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What sounds like a special health care program for recently released inmates may not seem a model of fairness to those who are struggling to pay for their own costly coverage. It might add … Is this another way to pay for drug addiction treatment? If …
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Stand In The Gap marches forward
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She highly applauded drug testing school age children while suggesting drug testing also for all recipients of many governmental assistance programs because misappropriation and abuses of these programs abound with drug addicted recipients.
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You're 'not a kid', judge reminds drug dealer
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Years of drug addiction led him to Justice Martin Daubney's court room. … Justice Daubney noted that Tei had spent his time in prison since his fraud conviction productively, enrolling in drug programs and taking up vocational training opportunities.
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Martha's House gets a home
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Deep in the woods of the Yauhannah community in northern Georgetown County is a place where women getting out of jail or prison can seek refuge if they are struggling to free themselves from drug addiction. Martha's House has been a dream for Susan …
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Runwell Awards 12 Grants To Addiction Treatment Centers In Its First Year
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"We're thrilled we were able to support 12 treatment programs in our first year," said Quirk, who has completed marathons and ultra-running events around the world in support of addiction treatment efforts. "As a non-profit, we understand how a little …
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Drug Court Program to Curb Jail Overcrowding
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Brewer who successfully completed the program believes jails are filled with people who need help like he received not incarceration. "The people sitting in jails are not criminals they are drug addicts they are doing what they have to do to support …
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