What is a therapeutic community?
Question by M L: What is a therapeutic community?
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Therapeutic community is a term applied to a participative, group-based approach to long-term mental illness, personality disorders and drug addiction. The approach is usually residential with the clients and therapists living together, is based on milieu therapy principles and includes group psychotherapy as well as practical activities.
Therapeutic communities have gained some reputation for success in rehabilitation and patient satisfaction in Britain and abroad. In Britain, ‘democratic analytic’ therapeutic communities have tended to specialise in the treatment of moderate to severe personality disorders and complex emotional and interpersonal problems. The evolution of therapeutic communities in the United States has followed a different path with hierarchically arranged communities (or concept houses) specialising in the treatment of drug and alcohol dependence.
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Drugs vs. the drug war: A response to Michael Gerson
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(The principle applies, more mildly, to softer drugs. By what governing theory did the citizens of … Their argument is that drug use enslaves drug users with addiction, and that were drugs to be made legal, we'd all be robbed of the benefits of …
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The Holistic Sanctuary Is Saving Lives With Its New And Revolutionary "Pouyan …
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In addition to the well-known drugs associated with chemical dependency such as heroin, cocaine, suboxone, methadone and others, Justin was also suffering from "Iatrogenic Disease." Iatrogenic Disease – death by prescription medication – is … Upon …
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Kamla meets President Castro
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… stressing that drug control policies must be comprehensive and balanced. They also recognised the principle of common and shared responsibility, as well as, an approach aimed at the well-being of persons and the prevention of crime and violence …
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long term residential drug abuse programs?
Question by dldouc: long term residential drug abuse programs?
Does anyone know of a long term residential drug abuse program in MA. Affordable or that will take mass health. My 43 year old brother in law is finally ready to make a long term commitment but we can’t find any place he can afford to go to.
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Answer by Vegas Dude
Narconon is supposed to be good. It’s expensive but you get more than with other drug treatment programs — the program lasts 3 months while others last just 1 month and if they relapse they can go back for free.
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New York applauds early success of state's prescription drug-abuse monitoring …
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New York state's expanded prescription drug-abuse monitoring program has seen “dramatic” results in less than six months, officials said in touting the early success of the initiative. The state's Internet System for Tracking Over-Prescribing Act, or I …
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Parties agree heroin problem needs state attention
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Anne Haskell, says she hopes to state will also increase funding for drug treatment programs. Haskell says relying only on increased enforcement won't solve the heroin problem long term. She says more treatment programs will be needed to keep people …
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Hamburg man convicted in three burglaries
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But Sedita said the court has committed to sentencing Middagh to a program that would require him to remain at a drug treatment facility for 90 days, before being released on parole. email: [email protected] · Tweet. Please enable JavaScript to view …
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drug treatment recommendation?
Question by Mya J: drug treatment recommendation?
Does anyone have any recommendations for a rehab center in the Los Angeles area? I am a 28yr old female with no health insurance and have been using meth for 13yrs. I need help!! I would like to go to a fairly decent treatment center. Can anyone recommend one? Thank you.
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Answer by ape_shall_never_kill_ape94
get arrested
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Lower Providence man who had 52 heroin packets enters drug court program
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A Lower Providence man discovered with 52 bags of heroin in his car after allegedly driving under the drug's influence in Plymouth has entered a special drug court treatment program. Todd David Caperilla, 42, of the 100 block of Oaklyn Avenue, was …
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Harrisburg Patient Receives Lifesaving Valve Replacement
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Gambling in Litchfield County often remains a silent addiction
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It offers individual, group and family counseling for gambling addiction and other types of substance abuse. They provide residential treatment, outpatient service and transitional housing for patients. The inpatient program includes individual and …
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Are there any low-cost drug treatment programs in Oregon?
Question by abbie f: Are there any low-cost drug treatment programs in Oregon?
My family is really low on cash at the moment, and I want to help my parents by finding a low-cost drug rehab center or drug treatment program for my younger brother who has gotten himself involved in drugs. Any suggestions?
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Answer by beth e
I have included links below that you can check out. One has a list of centers affiliated with Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Association. As far as I know, they can give grants to those who need it. You should call those centers and ask around. I hope you find a treatment center soon, and that your brother recovers form his addiction.
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Coconino County jail diversion program faces shortfall
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The program allows judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, substance abuse treatment specialists, probation officers and more to work together to support the offenders in dealing with substance abuse problems. Valdivia said that more than 600 people …
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Experts worry about effect of dropping hundreds of addicted Mainers from …
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BANGOR, Maine — On the first day of 2014, hundreds of Mainers were removed from their methadone and Suboxone treatment regimens after losing MaineCare coverage, prompting concern among addiction treatment experts and addicts that many former methadone …
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Heroin Use On The Rise In South Florida
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Landfield is a clinical liason at Transitions Recovery Program, a residential substance abuse treatment program in North Miami Beach, and she says she's seeing more and more people hooked on heroin. “I would say in the last six months it's more so than …
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drug rehab center in Hawaii?
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can anyone help me find a drug detox in Hawaii that takes med quest insurance?? i know there are some,just not sure what there called. anything would help. thanks!!!
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(DASH)/Methadone Maintenance Drug Addiction Services of Hawaii Inc
Substance abuse treatment, detoxification and methadone maintenance and detox – outpatient programs for adolescents, persons with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders, pregnant/postpartum women, women and men
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Police pressing to stem tide of heroin trade
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Altman routinely comes in contact with children as young as 12 who enter the three in-patient treatment facilities at the campus, and she has no problem using words like epidemic to describe the growing heroin addiction that she and others say was …
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Camden Select Board considers Fox Hill zoning amendment at public hearing …
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Public comment is invited on proposed amendments that would expand the town's Coastal Residential zone parameters to allow special exceptions for “residential treatment facilities for comprehensive alcohol and related substance abuse disorders …
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Hillside Releases Infographic on Dual-Diagnosis Rates for Drug Abuse & Mental …
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(PRLEAP.COM) Hillside, a drug and alcohol treatment center in Eastern Pennsylvania, published an infographic that illustrates some of the challenges faced by those with a co-occurrence of drug abuse and mental health issues. The goal of the infographic …
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Is there a pharmaceutical drug that is safer and more beneficial than marijuana?
Question by jose: Is there a pharmaceutical drug that is safer and more beneficial than marijuana?
Marijuana in the natural form, being smoked, eaten, or vaporized (to remove carcinogenic properties). Is there anything out there, man made, that can benefit more illnesses, diseases, disorders both physical and psychological, etc?
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@ vincent, Marinol isn’t cheap, has some unwanted side effects, and has to be taken orally so it rules out patients with strong nausea (like chemo patients) who can’t keep their food down
@matt not everyone can use acetaminophen because of adverse reactions with other medications that can cause death.. I think it’s somewhere around 10k deaths a year…. Marijuana has never directly killed anyone, and to say it has no medical benefit is hilarious, especially when the American Government has allowed people to use government weed for years. Granted most of those individuals are now dead but there were ~13 in all. Oh and if there is no benefit from marijuana why does marinol exist? use your thinkety think before you speak
@metalplanttag- you didn’t answer my question you just compared the withdrawals of marijuana to nicotine. Yes in really chronic users I could see them suffering from mild agitation, insomnia and things of that nature which yes do mimic nicotine withdrawals but Nicotine addiction is much much stronger and harder to beat. Also “addictions” for marijuana are what,~10% of users… What’s the statistics for people with addictive personalities again? ~10% too right? If i’m mistaken by a significant amount please correct me.
Keep in mind though that addiction rates in the US that go by rehab centers more often than not cite examples from court ordered individuals. Meaning they chose rehab over jail time. But your quote did say something interesting, something about not many scientific studies have being done.. right? kinda like the AMA calling for marijuana to be rescheduled so they can do more studies
“Despite the public controversy, less than small randomized controlled trials of short d
uration involving ~300 patients have been conducted over the last 35 years on smoked cannabis” and “Our AMA urges that marijuana’s status as a federal Schedule I controlled substance be reviewed with the goal of facilitating
the conduct of clinical research and development of cannabinoid-based medicines, and alternate delivery methods” http://www.ama-assn.org/resources/doc/cs…
I know your post didn’t specifically say you were against marijuana for medical purposes but when compared to the addiction rates of Benzo’s stemming from use for psychological disorders like anxiety, or PTSD wouldn’t marijuana be a better choice? that is just one example and the science is out there to back it if NIDA would back american based studies on it, instead of us having to rely mostly on European studies
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Answer by Vincent
You can try taking tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, capsuls.
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What's happening in government this week
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BIALECKI IN BARNSTABLE: Housing and Economic Development Secretary Greg Bialecki meets with members of Cape Associates and members of the Cape Cod Young Professionals to discuss what work the state is doing to help attract young residents and families …
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Work at PAST helps ex-NFLer recover
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Terry Tautolo suspects the concussions he suffered during his NFL career contributed to his drug addiction, homelessness and failed marriages. But when his friend and mentor Dick Vermeil asked him to join his coaching staff for the NFL Players …
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Drug thefts rise as 'pill mills' close
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The state also launched a prescription drug monitoring program, aiming to cut down on the abuse of opioid painkillers. A spokeswoman for state Attorney General … Pharmacies are keeping lower quantities of controlled drugs on the premises, just as …
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How the Myth of the 'Negro Cocaine Fiend' Helped Shape American Drug Policy
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The author, a distinguished physician, wrote: “[The Negro fiend] imagines that he hears people taunting and abusing him, and this often incites homicidal attacks upon innocent and unsuspecting victims.” And he … Between 1898 and 1914, numerous …
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