Triggers and Cravings (Part 1): What Is Addiction?
Triggers and Cravings (Part 1): What Is Addiction? – This video introduces information about the concept of the disease of addiction, the changes to the brain of a person who abuses substances, and the physical and psychological reactions when substance abuse stops. It explains cravings, why they occur, and ways they can be handled.
Smokeless treatment facilities test mettle of recovering addicts
Filed under: Substance Abuse Treatment
The facility is smoke-free under the state's Recovery Plus initiative, which requires all substance abuse and mental health treatment facilities that receive public funding to be tobacco-free by March 2013. Salt Lake County instituted the change ahead …
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VA hospital partnership to help homeless veterans
Filed under: Substance Abuse Treatment
Under the arrangement, Phoenix Programs, which offers substance abuse treatment at its facility at 90 E. Leslie Lane, will provide up to six additional beds for homeless veterans referred by Truman Memorial. The partnership, which officially begins …
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White House Funds Move of 'War on Drugs' to Clinics
Filed under: Substance Abuse Treatment
Three states — Arizona, Iowa, and New Jersey — will receive up to $ 7.5 million over 5 years to screen for and treat people with a variety of substance abuse disorders in different primary care settings and emergency rooms. The program, dubbed …
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Drug offenders to get treatment under new NJ law
Filed under: Substance Abuse Treatment
Christie put his signature on the legislation at the Rescue Mission of Trenton, which offers residential and outpatient substance abuse treatment. He briefly toured the agency and talked with participants taking part in a typing class. Christie, a …
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