behavioral health

Young to Head Up BRMC Internet Addiction Program

Young to head up BRMC Internet addiction program
With her two decades of experience in researching and treating Internet addiction, Dr. Kimberly Young is going to head up an Internet detoxification and stabilization program in the behavioral health division at BRMC. It begins Monday. It's a 10-day … Read more on Bradford Era

UPDATED: FDA experts endorse new COPD blockbuster from GlaxoSmithKline
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Time to Weigh the Economics of Drug Abuse – the News Journal

Time to weigh the economics of drug abuse – The News Journal

Time to weigh the economics of drug abuse
The News Journal
Heroin addiction, like drug abuse of any kind, is always first and foremost a human story of tragic proportions. The lives wasted, the harm inflicted and the hearts broken always rip at our emotions no matter how close or how faraway the victims are to

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US AIDS Groups Provide Medical Supplies to Malawi Hospitals

US AIDS Groups Provide Medical Supplies to Malawi Hospitals
The Glaser Foundation conducted a study of 90 health facilities. The results showed that 85 needed specialized equipment. … The Malawi government is also putting all HIV positive pregnant women on treatment. But CDC spokeswoman Beth Barr said … Read more on Voice of America

Health Care Companies Built for Growth
Universal Health Services owns and operates acute care hospitals, behavioral health centers, ambulatory health centers,… Continue reading

Tennessee CON Report – August 2013

Tennessee CON report – August 2013
The relocation of an existing nonresidential substitution-based treatment center for opiate addiction from 3041 Getwell Road, Suite 101, Memphis, Tennessee 38118 to 4539 Winchester Road, Building B, Suite 1, Memphis, Tennessee 38118 at an estimated … Read more on Lexology (registration)

Former DTAP coordinator pleads guilty to receiving bribe
DTAP functions as an alternative to incarceration for nonviolent drug offenders. Patients must go through nine months of locked-down inpatient treatment… Continue reading

For the First Time, a US Hospital Will Offer Rehab for Internet Addiction

For the First Time, a US Hospital Will Offer Rehab for Internet Addiction
Now, the debate be damned, the first US hospital is offering a program to treat online addicts. A voluntary, 10 day inpatient rehab program will open on September 9 at the Behavioral Health Services wing of Bradford Regional Medical Center in … Read more on Motherboard (blog)

Kindred Healthcare Completes Sale of 14 Non-Strategic Facilities Outside
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Speaking Out on Heroin Plague Addiction Claimed Their Son, Took Toll on Family

Speaking out on heroin plague Addiction claimed their son, took toll on family
They knew he needed intensive treatment for longer than 30 days, the typical length covered by insurance or imposed by a judge, but they could not afford it for him. Matthew Cote worried that Christopher felt he could not measure up to his older … Read more on Eagle-Tribune

Prognosis Negative
Day in the Life of a Porn Star, Part I. Charm… Continue reading