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Funding cuts to drug treatment centers mean addicts get turned away
But for those without the funds to pay for long-term treatment with housing, counseling, medicine and rehabilitation, the state's resources are limited – and shrinking further. The new state budget sliced … But there isn't enough subsidized care for …
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He went The Beginnings here in Tyler, he needs inpatient treatment, and they referred him to a center in Houston who will be able to provide enterpreting ( sign language). Is there any place closer to … I've been off and on Methadone or something …
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Today in Music History – Aug. 13
In 1994, "The Four Seasons" set a record for longevity on the Billboard charts when a remix on their 1976 hit "December 1963 (Oh What a Night)" entered the Hot 100. The group … He had died of a heart attack at a drug rehab centre four days earlier …
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Medbox CEO Dr. Bruce Bedrick on Bloomberg TV
Medbox provides their patented systems, software and consulting services to pharmacies, dispensaries, urgent care centers, drug rehab clinics, hospitals, prison systems, hospice facilities, and medical groups worldwide. Medbox, Inc. is a publicly …
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Drug addiction in Iran
Health officials and social workers in the area complain that funds for outreach and rehabilitation programmes have—thanks to sanctions—been frozen. Yet Iran has some of the world's most go-ahead policies for addressing the problem, with methadone …
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Gordon Ramsay's shows make a real difference…unlike The Great British Bake Off
He isn't peddling sugary televisual methadone designed to make viewers believe that they're living in a twee, post-war fantasy land. Outside the grounds of the stately homes where the GBBO producers … Thanks to the show and additional support from …
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Bloated and exhausted: Matthew Perry reveals even more weight gain as he …
… a 28-day rehabilitation program in 1997 for a Vicodin addiction, however the six foot actor then became startling skinny – dropping to just 145 pounds – and again checked into rehab in 2001 for Vicodin, methadone, amphetamines and alcohol treatment.
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EDITORIAL: Quit abiding fraud in drug rehab program
The Center for Investigative Reporting and CNN last month unveiled the results of a joint yearlong investigation into alcohol and drug addiction treatment for the poor. The reporting detailed widespread fraud in the Drug Medi-Cal program, the addiction …
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One family's struggle with Sarnia-Lambton's lack of services for addicts
There's not much help currently available in Sarnia for addicts, outside of the Bluewater Methadone Clinic and various outpatient hospital services, Hook said. “I hope the … just nothing,” she said. “We need a rehab, something to keep (her) off the …
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AC360 Video: CNN and CIR investigation uncovers major fraud in largest …
A year after The Center for Investigative Reporting filed its first public records request about Drug Medi-Cal fraud, California's Department of Health Care Services has moved to temporarily cut funding to 16 drug rehab clinics. Tonight the first part …
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New methadone clinic proposed for Waterbury's East End
Dr. Ebenezer Kolade, owner of New Era Rehabilitation Center, wants to open a methadone clinic at 447 Meriden Road, which is next to Chase Elementary School in the city's East End. It would be in building previously occupied by a walk-in medical clinic.
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The Lion Chases Away the Dragon
This increase in intravenous drug use led to an HIV crisis in Iran: in 2005 another study by Saman Zamani and others in Karmanshah prisons (“Scaling up methadone maintenance treatment for opioid-dependent prisoners in Iran” in the International Journal …
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