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MIRAMAR, FL — (Marketwired) — 05/25/16 — Reawakenings Wellness Center proudly announced today that one of NBCUniversal’s longest running shows in syndication, The Steve Wilkos Show, has selected their facility, a provider of drug and alcohol treatment, as the show’s partner for treating guests struggling with substance abuse and behavioral issues. To kick off the new alliance, Reawakenings Wellness Center’s very own Dr. Robin Barnett is set to appear on The Steve Wilkos Show Wednesday, May 25th (check local listings) to discuss addiction with Steve and coordinate treatment for a guest in dire need of help.
Reawakenings Wellness Center’s team of industry leading treatment experts and noted author and addiction specialist Dr. Barnett will work closely with the show when a guest or guests are in need of substance abuse treatment and critical care.
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BAR HARBOR, Maine (AP) — Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor will receive nearly $12 million in federal money to pay for its new center that will study drug addiction.
The lab’s new facility will be called the Center for System Neurogenetics of Addiction. It will study mice to see what traits predispose them to drug addiction and use those findings to inform research into human addiction.
Maine Sens. Susan Collins, a Republican, and Angus King, an independent, say the center will build datasets to better understand human addiction. The grant will come in the form of five years of funding supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
The nation’s epidemic of addiction to painkillers and heroin is fueling runaway demand for a once-obscure form of housing known as “sober homes,” where recovering addicts live together in a supervised, substance-free setting to ease their transition back to independence.
The facilities are rarely run by credentialed professionals and are only lightly regulated — a situation that has prompted at least five states to pass or consider legislation to impose basic rules on how they operate. Some homes have been accused of tolerating drug use and participating in insurance fraud.
“The ones that are good are fantastic,” said Pam Rodriguez, CEO of Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities, an Illinois nonprofit working to reduce prison time for nonviolent drug offenders. But the rapidly expanding field also includes “people exploiting the vulnerability of the population and their desperation to find a safe place to live,” she said.
St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in New Jersey has become the first hospital in the country to implement a program that will manage patients’ pain in the emergency room without the use of opioid painkillers.
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Cocaine Makes Brain Cells Eat Themselves
Cocaine Makes Brain Cells Eat Themselves
Study suggests cocaine can trigger a unique form of brain cell death in mice, opening the door to new therapies
Former Senator Patrick Kennedy is using his position in one of the most powerful political families in America to raise awareness about addiction and mental illness, and is urging the 2016 presidential candidates to do the same.