Addiction Treatment Specialists Say Heroin Deaths Avoidable
Kloda says traditional self-help groups, like Narcotics Anonymous, are invaluable in offering social support and interaction with other recovering addicts. "It's like free group therapy, cognitive therapy," he said. But he said although it's not …
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Eugene Robinson commentary: Drug addiction needs to be treated as a medical …
There would be times when managing addiction meant prescribing to addicts pharmaceutical-grade heroin and other drugs and then medically monitoring them. There would be other times when it meant treatment to get clean. Philip Seymour Hoffman had …
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Answer Man: New addiction treatment center opens
Indeed it is. It's called the Minnesota Adult and Teen Challenge center, and it offers "comprehensive addiction treatment and recovery services under one umbrella." The long-term treatment program opened about a month ago, and it has about a dozen …
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