Substance Abuse Treatment Program Helps With 12 Step Program

Substance Abuse Treatment Program helps with 12 Step Program – Married woman recovers from polysubstance abuse with help from the substance abuse treatment program at Brighton Center for Recovery and 12 step program support. Her drugs of choice were alcohol and cocaine. Her family helped her intervention.

Opiates passing alcohol as top addiction in Monroe

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Heroin and prescription drug abuse are surpassing alcoholism as the top addiction problem in Monroe County, treatment program officials report. "Opiates" — including illicit drugs and prescription pain-killers — accounted for nearly 41 percent of …
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Reports show spike in substance–abusing nurses

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According to the reports, discipline usually involves four years' probation, drug treatment, drug testing and restrictions on the job. The board rarely suspends a nurse's license indefinitely. "We don't wish to make it so these nurses can never return …
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More Addictions Treated with Drug Therapy

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Over the last decade, more treatment options for drug and alcohol abuse have become available, but the extent to which these agents have been used in traditional ambulatory care settings isn't known. So Frank and colleagues scanned the National …
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