CenterPointe Hospital: Addiction Is Treatable

CenterPointe Hospital: Addiction is Treatable – Addiction to alcohol or other drugs is a chronic, progressive disease that affects not only the individual with the addiction, but entire families. However, addiction is treatable. CenterPointe Hospital offers individuals experiencing addiction and their families the opportunity to cope with their illnesses and begin lives of recovery. The private Hospital’s residential and outpatient addiction treatment programs provide confidential assessment, individualized patient care and medically managed treatment that incorporate therapy, education and a 12-step means by which to begin a lifetime of recovery. For more information about CenterPointe’s comprehensive addiction treatment or other behavioral health services, call 1.800.345.5407 or visit www.centerpointehospital.com.

Curbing Opioid Abuse Doable, Report Suggests

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The real answer to the drug abuse is to start fewer people on this treatment in the first place, physicians said. And there is no evidence that higher-dose regimens are more effective. "Long-term use of opioids is not an evidence-based practice …
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TB claims 2011 CBSE class XII topper

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MUMBAI: The city lost one of its bright young minds on Monday when Shreeram Radhakrishnan, who topped the CBSE's class XII examinations (science stream) in 2011 in the state, died of multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB ) after being in an unconscious state …
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