Adcare Hospital Outpatient
Adcare Hospital Outpatient – Adcare Hospital outpatient alcohol & drug treatment clinics. AdCare outpatient alcohol drug rehab clinics offer comprehensive and individualized treatment that accommodates clients’ work and family schedules. Conveniently located in Boston, North Dartmouth, Quincy, Worcester, and West Springfield, Massachusetts, as well as in Warwick, Rhode Island, AdCare outpatient clinics offer the following core treatment programs: 1.Comprehensive Assessment and Evaluation focuses on evaluating and comprehending the severity of an individual’s alcohol or drug abuse problem as the first step toward developing an individualized and appropriate treatment plan. 2.Individual, Group and Family Counseling is available for persons struggling with alcohol and drug abuse and its related problems at all stages of addiction and recovery. 3.Intensive Outpatient Programs — Day or Evening are offered up to six days per week or three evenings per week in three hour sessions. Activities consist of individual and group counseling, focused educational sessions, skills groups and self-help participation. Family involvement in treatment is strongly encouraged. 4.Day Treatment Program is offered six hours a day, seven days a week in Worcester. 5.Outpatient Detoxification Program combines medical supervision during withdrawal with alcohol and drug abuse treatment to achieve abstinence, and is offered at our Worcester Clinic. 6.Specialty Groups are site specific. See individual clinics for groups/information.
Panel Recommends Against Approval of Hydrocodone Capsules
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"My negative vote was not about this drug per se," said panel member James H. Ware, PhD, from the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, "but there's a problem with this class of drugs, and some drugs have been approved with similar …
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A Long Road Ahead for Better Treatment of Valley Fever
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Hundreds of people throughout the United States in recent weeks discovered the difficulty of treating fungal infections during the outbreak of fungal meningitis caused by tainted steroidal drugs. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control reported as of Dec …
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Intense Chemo Bests Standard in Breast Cancer
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SAN ANTONIO – After a decade of follow-up, a highly concentrated chemotherapy regimen for women with high-risk breast cancer outperformed conventional treatment with the same drugs, a researcher said. In a long-running, randomized trial, an intense …
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Children OK with Long-Term Exjade
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ATLANTA — Children with thalassemia and treated with the anti-iron overload drug deferasirox (Exjade) appear to tolerate the treatment for at least as long as 3 years while serum iron levels fell, researchers said here. After a median duration of 101 …
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