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Florida is lousy with such pain-clinic pill mills, in part because of extremely loose oversight of the people operating them. Until June, when Governor Charlie Crist signed a new law cracking down on the operations, there was nothing to prevent felons from opening a clinic and hiring doctors to write the prescriptions. Indeed, on the […]
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Health officials do not tease out which drug is responsible for every death, and it’s not always possible. “There may be lots of drugs on board,” says Cathy Barber, director of the Injury Control Research Center at the Harvard School of Public Health. “Is it the opioid that caused the death? Or is it the […]
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“The Moment of Change: Intervention Approaches for Professionals” conference is scheduled for September 2010 in Palm Beach, Florida, providing professionals with access to top experts in the field and news on the latest advances, studies and trends. Brentwood, TN, June 10, 2010 –(PR.com)– Foundations Recovery Network and Southworth Associates announce their sixth national conference on […]
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It’s not easy to find a mother who would look back fondly on the time her son had cancer. But Penny (not her real name) does. Penny lives in Boston, and her son got sick when he was just 13. He struggled with the disease for several years — through the battery of tests and […]
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There’s a party going on and the entire country is invited. The problem is, it’s an opioid party—and too many Americans have been accepting the invitation. As I reported a few weeks ago, the development of new forms of highly addictive painkillers like Oxycodone, Oxycontin and hydrocodone has led to a 10-fold increase in prescriptions […]
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Dr. Daniel Amen shows brain scans of a patient both drunk and sober during a talk about scans and their use in addiction treatment at a seminar at the Hanley Center Tuesday morning, September 14, 2010. Starting this month, every new Hanley Center patient will have a SPECT scan taken of their addicted brain. The […]
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The Intervention Experts Qualifications BRI: Board Registered Interventionist 1. The professional has to be in the field of addiction for at least 5 years 2. Successfully complete a minimum of 14 hours of training/education specific to addictions other than to alcohol and drugs, i.e., gambling, food, sex, etc. 3. Have six years of work experience […]