Providing Help Today: Innovations in Addiction Treatment


 

Providing Help Today: Innovations in Addiction Treatment – For more than two decades, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has systematically sought to improve health by reducing the harmful effects of substance use di…

 

Where to get help, information about heroin addiction

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National Institute on Drug Abuse helps disseminate research to help improve prevention and treatment. Learn more at www.drugabuse.gov. • Renz Addiction Counseling Center provides alcohol and substance abuse prevention and treatment services.
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Funding cuts to drug treatment centers mean addicts get turned away

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DURHAM — Jeff Stillers' addiction to alcohol has landed him in emergency rooms, clinics and halfway houses; 20 times he's gone through about a week of detox at the state's expense since he lost his home, wife and kids 13 years ago to his alcoholism.
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Swinney Foundation helps moms battling addiction

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Scott Dishman, director of community engagement for The Family Effect, the philanthropic arm of Greenville County's largest provider of addiction services, The Phoenix Center, said only 4 percent of all addiction treatment programming in this country …
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