CenterPointe Hospital: Addiction Is Treatable

CenterPointe Hospital: Addiction is Treatable – Addiction to alcohol or other drugs is a chronic, progressive disease that affects not only the individual with the addiction, but entire families. However, addiction is treatable. CenterPointe Hospital offers individuals experiencing addiction and their families the opportunity to cope with their illnesses and begin lives of recovery. The private Hospital’s residential and outpatient addiction treatment programs provide confidential assessment, individualized patient care and medically managed treatment that incorporate therapy, education and a 12-step means by which to begin a lifetime of recovery. For more information about CenterPointe’s comprehensive addiction treatment or other behavioral health services, call 1.800.345.5407 or visit www.centerpointehospital.com.

Judge orders drug treatment for mom who left baby in box

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Crawley, 34, a confessed crack cocaine addict, will be immediately paroled to the New Directions drug rehabilitation program for 11 1/2to 23 months followed by having to report to a probation officer for seven years, Common Pleas Judge Alice Beck Debow …
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Drug Court Program to Curb Jail Overcrowding

Filed under: drug treatment programs

The drug program not only keeps people out of jail but it has since it's beginning effectively kept people from returning to jail. Nethery says more than 70% of people who go to jail return, where as less than 15% of people who go through a treatment …
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Study Finds Drug Rehab Could Reduce WV Prison Overcrowding

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A new study suggests that West Virginia can reduce prison overcrowding by providing substance abuse treatment to offenders that are on probation or parole. But as the "war on drugs" rages on, not everyone thinks that program would work the way it's …
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2. Addiction to strong narcotic pain-killers killing more

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The bill puts the onus to design and administer the program on the shoulders of the state Board of Pharmacy and dictates that anyone who prescribes or dispenses certain prescription drugs must register with and use the program. “This is a tool, not a …
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