Drug Treatment

Alexander Eichler

Executives In Rehab Won't Quit This Habit

HuffingtonPost.com | Alexander Eichler | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Drug Addiction, Employee Rehab, U.S. Economy, Wall Street Rehab, Drug Treatment, Addiction, Executive Rehab, Alcohol Addiction, Corporate Rehab, Rehab, Unplugging, Addiction Treatment, Video, Wall Street, Weak Economy, Addiction & Recovery, Addiction and Recovery, Alcoholism, Treatment, Alcohol Abuse, Drug Abuse, Poor Economy, Rehabilitation, Plugged In, Drug Rehab, Business News

When Natalie was in rehab last year, she noticed a lot of people on the phone. Many of the other patients at Passages Malibu -- the California trea...

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Treatment: Because No Life Is Disposable

Howard Meitiner | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Addiction, Treatment, Chris Christie, Drugs, Substance Abuse, New Jersey, Incarceration, Drug Treatment, Crime News
Howard Meitiner

It's about time more states recognized that low-level drug users are often victims who need help to fight their addictions. As we've said before, incarceration does the opposite of what we want to accomplish -- it turns those nonviolent users into criminals.

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Our Drug War Is the Virus Spreading Our Violent Economy to Mexico

Stephen Hren | Posted 03.23.2012

Read More: Violence, Drug Treatment, Mexico Drug War, Drug Legalization, Economy, Politics News
Stephen Hren

It's not that there aren't millions or even tens of millions of Americans that are trying to solve our problems creatively and help create a just and egalitarian society, it's just that they have no power or voice. Consider the drug war.

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Drug Courts: Enter At Your Own Risk

Margaret Dooley-Sammuli | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Drug Addiction, Drug Courts, Drug Treatment, Drug Policy Alliance, Recidivism, Incarceration, Public Health, Drugs, Drug Policy, Crime News
Margaret Dooley-Sammuli

The drug war is forty years old this year. It's time to step back and ask ourselves what's the best way to solve the problem we're trying to solve -- how to reduce drug abuse and addiction -- and use the best available evidence to guide us.

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Chris Christie Speaks Out Against The Drug War

Posted 12.01.2011

Read More: Chris Christie Drug War, Chris Christie, Drug Treatment, Chris Christie War on Drugs, Drug War, Marijuana, Mitt Romney, Medical Marijuana, Governor Chris Christie, New Jersey Drug Court, War on Drugs, Drug Policy, Video, Mitt Romney 2012, Drug Policy Reform, Politics News

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) spoke out against the war on drugs on Monday, saying that "we need to do much different and much better than what w...

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Inheriting Alzheimer's: Research See If Disease Could Be Prevented With Drug Treatment Years Before Dementia Begins

New York Times | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Alzheimer's Disease, Drug Treatment, Faith in Science, Colombia, Prevention, Health Post50, Phoenix-Arizona, New York Times, Alzheimer's, Genetics, Betancur Family, Family, Fifty News

For the Betancur family, it was a kind of pilgrimage, an act of faith in science. In September, four family members traveled from Medellin, Colombi...

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Obama Says Drug Users Must Be Treated as Criminals

Scott Morgan | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: Drug Use, Drug Treatment, Marijuana, War on Drugs, Politics, Barack Obama, University of Maryland, Drugs, Politics News
Scott Morgan

You cannot present yourself as a proponent of a public health approach while simultaneously advocating the aggressive pursuit, arrest, and imprisonment of people who might need help with a health problem.

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Heroin Vaccine Found To Work On Rats

Posted 09.25.2011

Read More: Drug Addiction, Addiction Treatment, Drug Treatment, Immunopharmacotherapy, Hiv Infection, Heroin Addiction, Intravenous Drugs, Heroin Treatment, Drugs, Heroin, Heroin Vaccine, Sharing Needles, Vaccines, Video, Healthy Living News

In what could be a breakthrough for addiction treatment, researchers have found it's possible to vaccinate lab rats against the effects of heroin. ...

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Jason Cherkis

Inside Bachmann's Husband's Failed Government Contract

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Cherkis | Posted 08.31.2011

Read More: Washington County, Recovery, Drug Treatment, Public Funding, Michele Bachmann, Government Contracts, Marcus Bachmann, Elections 2012, Bachmann & Associates, Tea Party, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Michele Bachmann may have a more personal reason to hate government funding than fellow conservatives. The GOP presidential candida...

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After Outcry, Quinn Scales Back Human-Services Cuts

The Huffington Post | Will Guzzardi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Illinois Budget, Illinois, Drug Treatment, Illinois Budget Cuts, Pat Quinn Budget, Chicago, Willie Delgado, Video, Chicago News

The ordinarily quiet River North neighborhood of Chicago was rattled by gunfire Wednesday afternoon. Reginald Hardaman, a panhandler who for decades h...

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Quinn Cutting ALL Funding From Drug Treatment And Prevention

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Illinois Budget, Drug Treatment, Illinois Budget Cuts, Pat Quinn, Greg Harris, Chicago, Illinois, Medicaid, Drug Prevention, Chicago News

The harsh reality of the budget cuts proposed by Illinois governor Pat Quinn will become very real for tens of thousands of residents, as the state pr...

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Rehab For "Terminally Unique" Lawyers

Iris Erlingsdottir | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Hazelden, Drinking Problems, Drug Addiction, Drug Treatment, American Bar Association, Lawyers, Recovery, Drug Addiction Treatment, Alcoholism, Alcoholic, Addiction, Addiction & Recovery, Lawyer, Substance Abuse, Alcohol Abuse, Alcoholics Anonymous, Georgetown Law School, Healthy Living News
Iris Erlingsdottir

Whether it is because they are members of a stressful profession or because personalities with a penchant for addictive disorders are drawn to the law, lawyers have twice the addiction rate of the general population.

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Lindsay Lohan's "Skid Bid" Will Not Help Her Drug Addiction

Anthony Papa | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lindsay Lohan Jail, Drug Addiction, Drug Treatment, War on Drugs, Celebrity Rehab, Lindsay Lohan Rehab, Celebrity Kids, Los Angeles News
Anthony Papa

In my experience doing a 12-year sentence, I witnessed hundreds of drug addicted people cycle in and out of prison. Like Lohan, many were given "skid bids," slang for a short sentence.

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Examining the Viability of Substance Abuse Treatment Today

Deni Carise | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Addiction, Drug Addiction, Addiction & Recovery, Drugs, Drug Treatment, Substance Abuse, Rehab, Health, Healthy Living News
Deni Carise

Regarding rehabilitation programs, defining successful substance abuse treatment as one that produces 100 percent abstinence for the rest of a person's life is a naïve and useless benchmark.

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Moms Unite to End the War on Drugs

Gretchen Burns Bergman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drug Treatment, Prison, San Diego, Mom, Drugs, War on Drugs, Mexico Drug Wars, A New PATH, Drug Overdose, Prohibition, Overdose, Politics News
Gretchen Burns Bergman

Now is the time to demand an end to the pointless and punitive criminalization of people who use drugs.

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When a Problem Comes Along, You Must Whip It

Joe Amon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Drug Detention, Drug Treatment, Human Rights, Human Right Watch, Aids, Cambodia, Hiv, Vietnam, Drugs, War on Drugs, China, Torture, World News
Joe Amon

"[H]e started to whip me on my back with twisted electrical wire," said Kakada, recalling his detention in a so-called "youth rehabilitation center" i...

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Holiday in Cambodia?

Joe Amon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Unicef, Human Rights, Cambodia, Drug Detention, Human Rights Watch, World News, Drug Treatment, World News
Joe Amon

While for tourists the idea of a Cambodian vacation has become an idyll, for young Cambodians, the Dead Kennedys' lyrics are still very much alive.

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Pregnant Women Who Use Drugs Love Their Children too

Reproductive Justice | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abortion, Drug Addiction, Drug Treatment, Miscarriage, Child Abuse, South Carolina, Addiction, Pregnancy-Prosecution, Pregnancy, Reproductive Health, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Politics News
Reproductive Justice

Liked or disliked, cases of drug using pregnant women have huge legal implications for all pregnant women -- potentially setting a devastating precedent that could establish special, separate legal rights for the fetus.

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Who Will Defend the Children in Cambodian Drug Rehab Centres?

Joe Amon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cambodia, Drug Detention, Drug Treatment, Human Rights, Unicef, Human Rights Watch, World News
Joe Amon

At the end of January, Human Rights Watch released a report on abuses throughout Cambodia's system of drug detention centers.

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Pot Arrests Fueling Drug Treatment Gravy Train

Paul Armentano | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cannabis, Drug Treatment, Norml, Marijuana, Dea, Addiction, Marijuana Legalization, Drug Dependency, Politics News
Paul Armentano

Americans are being busted for marijuana and are being forced to choose between rehab or jail. It's a dirty little secret that's been a boon for treatment clinics, and a bust for everyone else.

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All of Us Use Drugs, but Only Some of Us Go to Jail!

Tony Newman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Drug Prohibition, Drug Use, Drug Treatment, Drug Policy Alliance, Smoking, Marijuana, Incarceration, Prison, Drug War, Alcohol, War on Drugs, Healthy Living News
Tony Newman

The U.S. has 5% of the world's population but has 25% of the world's prison population. Nationally, blacks are 13 times more likely to be incarcerated on drug charges as whites, despite similar rates of drug use.

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How Not to Protect Children

Joe Amon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cambodia, Drug Treatment, Unicef, Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, World News
Joe Amon

The U.N. agency responsible for protecting children's rights was being criticized for supporting Cambodian detention centers where children are subject to arbitrary detention, torture, violent beatings and other sadistic punishments.

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Alarmist NY Times Story Could Hurt Efforts To Reduce Overcrowded Prisons

Jill Harris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Times, Drug Treatment, Prisons, War on Drugs, Marijuana, Budget Cuts, Prison-Overcrowding, Media News
Jill Harris

The budget crisis forces states to look at whether to continue to fight a failed Drug War that packs prisons with non-violent drug offenders who drain prison budgets. Shame on the Times if this article freezes forward-thinking legislators and state officials in their tracks.

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Exploring Vancouver With A True Olympian

Joel Epstein | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Public Policy, Hiking, Sports, Sailing, Drug Treatment, Mass Transit, Olympics, Vancouver, Sam Sullivan, Disability, Heroin, Canada, Skiing, Transportation, Healthy Living News
Joel Epstein

Were Sullivan just another athlete or Olympic official the image he cut would be long forgotten. But Sullivan is no ordinary gifted athlete or business of sports bureaucrat.

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Drug Warriors: Addicted to Myths

Norm Stamper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dr. Gabor Maté, Drug Treatment, Opioids, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction, Crack Cocaine, Alcohol, Addiction, Crystal Meth, Physical and Emotional Abuse, Sexual Abuse, M.a.S.H., War on Drugs, Zoloft, Percodan, Hawkeye, Politics News
Norm Stamper

"Addiction" is always about the underlying pain. The solution? Legalize and regulate all drugs. Integrate drug policy into public health. Treat addicts as humans, their physical and psychological issues as medical conditions.

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