Heroin Addicts Face Barriers to Treatment
Heroin addicts face barriers to treatment
They either claim that the addict does not meet the "criteria for medical necessity" – that inpatient care would be an inappropriate treatment – or require that the user first try outpatient rehab and "fail" before he or she can be considered for …
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Blanchard residents rally against proposed rehabilitation center
Second Story Ranch is a proposed 90-day residential home designed to help men who have completed 30 days of inpatient substance abuse treatment. The recovery home would be near the outskirts of Blanchard. Some residents have taken issue with the …
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At 21, recovering heroin addict starts over
Though his mother tried different approaches — punishment, lectures, praise when he entered rehab — nothing stuck. About a month after his release from a court-ordered, 81/2-month residential treatment program, Lewis, then 17, reverted to his old ways.
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