Veterans' Treatment Addresses Both Mental Illness, Substance Abuse

Veterans' treatment addresses both mental illness, substance abuse
G. Michael Holmes is succeeding in a Columbus Veterans Affairs program that provides combined treatment for vets who have both mental illness and substance-abuse problems. After an emotional breakdown in 2000, G. Michael Holmes learned he had …
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Heroin treatment, penalties strengthened in bill for Kentucky General Assembly
Kentucky Medicaid would be required to cover substance-abuse treatment for heroin and other opiates, which the bill's authors believe would increase the number of treatment facilities and openings in existing facilities. • Drug traffickers could face …
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Women's drug treatment center to open in March
GREENFIELD — The area's treatment capacity for women in the crucial early stages of recovery from drug and alcohol addiction should double this spring. Mary McEneany, chief administrative officer for the Center for Human Development, said her agency …
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A Forever Recovery CEO Per Wickstrom Speaks at Monroe County Prescription …
Per Wickstrom, the CEO of A Forever Recovery, a leading addiction treatment center that has pioneered a moral reasoning approach to recovery that empowers each individual client to access the spiritual, cognitive, and fellowship support that they need, …
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