California Treatment Advocacy Foundation Calls for State to Follow "Pennsylvania Model" in Assuring Adequate Coverage for Substance Abuse Addiction and Treatment

California Treatment Advocacy Foundation Calls for State to Follow ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Pennsylvania's Drug and Alcohol Insurance Law (Pennsylvania Act 106 of 1989) requires most group health insurance plans to include coverage for addiction treatment. The only prerequisite is certification and referral by a licensed physician or a ...
Survey - Addiction can strike anyone
Batesville Herald Tribune
Family members should not solve the problem for the addict. “Let the user do some legwork. It shouldn't be your problem 'to fix them.'” Attendees asked questions anonymously on index cards and also from the audience. How much does heroin cost? ...
Gambling Addict Trying To Start Over
KETV Omaha
Rose said she used the money to buy her mother clothes, to pay for an apartment and to fuel something she only found out later was an addiction.' “I am still a compulsive gambler,” said Rose. “It doesn't ever go away.” For many, gambling is recreation, ...
Nicotine A Gateway Drug For Cocaine
ThirdAge
Nicotine is a strong "gateway" drug that increases the effects of cocaine and possibly boosts the chances of becoming addicted, researchers reported Wednesday in a landmark paper on drug addiction. The study, performed in mice, suggests that reducing ...
Addict's memoir examines Jekyll-Hyde life
Windsor Star
In his memoir, which spans his adolescence to his early 30s, Lewis explores drug addiction in both scientific and subjective terms. Pairing diagrams of the brain with simple explanations, he describes what is going on in an addict's brain when he ...
Addiction Discriminates? What That Means in Today's Troubled Economy
AlterNet
It's important to emphasize that drawing attention to the increased vulnerability to addiction that poverty poses is in no way meant to pit addict against addict or to sew discord. There are all too many middle-class and rich people in this country ...
How Sean Sutton Made It Back From The Darkness Of Addiction - NewsOn6.com ...
News On 6
By Type By Specialty Sean Sutton is not hiding his ongoing fight against prescription pain killer addiction. In fact, he's spoken to almost 40 different groups since his arrest in 2010 in Stillwater, offering hope and advice. In Part One of our series, ...
Elements Behavioral Health Offers Free Parenting Tips for Parents in Recovery ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
13, 2011, the recovery community is invited to a free parenting workshop featuring addiction specialists Dr. David Sack and Dr. Shari Corbitt. Raising healthy children is a challenge for even the most resolute parent. When a parent is dependent on ...
City sets up substance abuse strategy
Independent Online
The SA National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (Sanca) in the Western Cape said there were no figures on how many office workers were struggling with addiction. Tertius Cronje, Sanca's corporate services director, said the council was ...
BC doctor investigates addiction drug
CBC.ca
They found several had histories of serious drug addiction and alcoholism that seemed to remit once they used the drug ceremonially twice a month. "I think there really is some valuable potential here that should be pursued, we also have to keep in...
Burnley burglar may get drug addiction help
Lancashire Telegraph
By Wendy Barlow » Court reporter A DRUG addict who burgled a derelict house while subject to a suspended sentence could get help with his addiction. Burnley Crown Court heard how Darren Heyworth, 41, who had been squatting in the property, ...
Community marches together
Bucyrus Telegraph Forum
Heidi Hendrickson battled addiction for 15 years and said she has found the answer. "God is the answer. He is the only one that can take the addiction away. I want to see this community heal," Hendrickson said. Like Hendrickson, Jessica Jewell grew up ...
Desperate alcoholic admits ASBO breach
Grantham Today
Magistrates deferred sentencing for six months, giving Hill the chance to show she can remain within the law and kick her alcohol addiction. The court heard how she planned to take up a place offered at a rehab clinic in Nottingham. A tearful Hill, 50, ...
Brain scans may show addiction to soda, sugar, and certain processed fatty foods
allvoices
Then why do some foods change the chemistry of your brain to make it react more like a drug addict after you eat those foods, mainly sugar, processed foods, and starches as well as "fatty foods." On the other hand some doctors say eating certain types ...
Bruce Grant: Stop addiction before it even starts
Tallahassee Democrat (blog)
Addiction is a brain disease, not a moral failure, and it poses a constant threat to the health and welfare of our youth. But if we can stop drug use before it starts — and we can — then our youth have a much better chance of reaching their human ...
Study: indicators of alcoholism present at birth
IceNews
The research, which medical daily Dagens Medicin describes as “rock solid, proven and tangible”, found that if a boy with an alcoholic father suffered a shortage of vitamin K during labour, was underweight at birth and had behavioural problems or ADHD ...
Man broke into Lincoln convenience store but left without grabbing any loot ...
The Republic
Beggs says officers think the man might have been looking for alcoholic beverages. A security recording shows the man smashed the glass front door at the store across the street from Lincoln High School a little before 3 am Sunday. Lincoln Police Capt. ...
Will the 'Exponents' Program Revolutionize Drug Addiction Recovery?
Opposing Views
Exponents founder Howard Josepher, himself a former addict and inmate, decided he had to do something to help his community, so he and six other men, who were just coming off prison sentences, started a support group in the basement of a local church. ...
Sheboygan teen files to run for mayor
Fox11online.com
Ryan, an admitted alcoholic, has come under fire after a three-day drinking binge in Elkhart Lake. Ryan has refused to resign, saying his drinking has not affected his performance as mayor. According to his website , Heimermann, who turns 18 this month ...
New York program aims to revolutionize drug addiction recovery ...
By Stephen C. Webster
Josepher, himself a former addict and incarcerated person, decided he had to do something to help his community, so he and six other men who were just coming off prison sentences started a support group in the basement of a local church. ...
The Raw Story
Addiction 101 - SoberRecovery : Alcoholism Drug Addiction Help ...
By cynical one
It's allowing the addict to be responsible for their own addiction AND their own recoveries. Detaching is not getting sucked in to the crazies that addiction thrives on. It's not being enmeshed, or obsessed with what the addict is doing, not doing. ...
SoberFeed...Live!
Sex Addiction Placed Alongside Substance, Food, Gambling ...
By Everything Addiction
Sex addiction can include several different types of behavior, ranging from sexual encounters with multiple partners outside a marriage to excessive online.
Everything Addiction
Binge Eating Disorder Hope: Overcoming Addiction in Women
By m2glover
Although most people believe addiction is confined to alcohol or drugs, it can also fall into many categories including shopping, sex, gambling, relationships and more. Addiction in Women The pressure on women today is immense. In young ...
Binge Eating Disorder Hope
Contingency management treatment for substance abuse | Addiction ...
By Addiction Blog
We present the basics of contingency management treatment as it relates to substance abuse and drug addiction treatment here. ... But contingency management is not for every rehab setting, or for every addict or alcoholic. So when and why ...
Addiction Blog
Your Questions About Alcoholism Signs
My BF doesnt like it- he said I am turning into an alcoholic, and even my friends have noticed. ... I'm a recovering addict just trying to make a difference. ...
downtoearthvideo.com/.../your-questions-about-alcoholism-si...
Abstract | Novel pharmacotherapeutic treatments for cocaine addiction
Shorter and Kosten review recent clinical trials and pre-clinical studies in cocaine addictiontreatment, highlighting the potential for future therapeutic ...
www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/9/119/abstract
Addiction | Francine Rivers
Addiction. November 4, 2011 | 0 comments. Upon our return from the Panama Cruise, Rick and I ...An alcoholic starts where he/she left off and accelerates. ...
francinerivers.com/blog/addiction
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