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KEYSTONE TREATMENT AND OUTREACH CENTER, 7511 S. LOUISE, SIOUX FALLS SIMILAR EVENTS TO FOLLOW AT CANTON AT 1 PM: KEYSTONE TREATMENT CENTER, 1010 E. 2ND STREET Media welcome at both locations SIOUX FALLS and CANTON, S.D., Sept. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Keystone Treatment and Outreach Center in Sioux Falls, S.D. will be the 2009 national headquarters at 11 AM Wednesday, September 16, to lead over 100 locations nationwide in a biodegradable balloon liftoff - "Recovery Takes Flight" -...

MURRIETA, Calif., Sept. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Forterus Inc. (Pink Sheets: FTER), which, through its ABTTC Inc. division provides drug and alcohol rehabilitation and a variety of other behavioral healthcare services with the highest levels of accreditation, announced today that Jerrod Menz, Forterus Vice President and co-founder and President of its "A Better Tomorrow" facility, and Jim Fent, Executive Vice President, will be interviewed on the VoiceAmerica Talk Radio Network on the...

Almost a quarter of a million individuals addicted to heroin are incarcerated in the United States each year. However, many prison systems across the country still do not offer medical treatment for heroin and opiate addiction, despite the demonstrated social, medical and economic benefits of opiate replacement therapy (ORT).According to new research from The Miriam Hospital, Brown University and their affiliated Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights, just half of all federal and state...

NEW YORK, Sept. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue. U.S. Markets for Addiction and Substance Abuse Treatment http://www.reportlinker.com/p0109210/US-Markets-for-Addiction-and-Substance-Abuse-Treatment.html INTRODUCTION STUDY GOALS AND OBJECTIVES This BCC Research report details the complicated world of substance abuse. The increased prevalence of substance abuse poses a threat to the health and welfare of many...

NEARLY NINE MILLION 12- TO 17-YEAR OLDS CAN GET PRESCRIPTION DRUGS TO ABUSE IN A DAY, NEARLY FIVE MILLION IN AN HOUR WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Compared to teens who have not seen their parent(s) drunk, those who have are more than twice as likely to get drunk in a typical month, and three times likelier to use marijuana and smoke cigarettes, according to the National Survey of American Attitudes on Substance Abuse XIV: Teens and Parents, the 14th annual back-to-school...

Canadian researchers reported on Wednesday that injections of the active ingredient of heroin work better than oral methadone for keeping addicts in treatment. However, the researchers said that the treatment carries a risk of overdose and seizures, so the injections should only be given in a medical setting. "Methadone, provided according to best-practice guidelines, should remain the treatment of choice for the majority of patients," Eugenia Oviedo-Joekes of the University of...

CHEVY CHASE, Md., Aug. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new service for health care providers prescribing methadone to treat chronic pain or opioid addiction -- the Physician Clinical Support System for Methadone (PCCS-M) -- opens this week with a mechanism to connect prescribers of methadone with experienced clinicians for one-to-one mentoring regarding the use of this medication. Methadone is an inexpensive opioid medication that has several unique properties that make it particularly...

 Although exercise is good for your health, extreme exercise may be physically addicting. Rats given a drug that produces withdrawal in heroin addicts went into withdrawal after running excessively in exercise wheels, according to new research. Rats that ran the hardest had the most severe withdrawal symptoms.The scientists who conducted the study reason that if excessive exercise is addicting, then maybe, to feel good, addicts could take moderate exercise instead of drugs. The findings...

The girlfriend of actor Michael Douglas's son is accused of smuggling heroin to him while he was under home detention in New York, court papers revealed. The federal complaint said a security guard reported hearing Cameron Douglas asking for a toothbrush, which his girlfriend, Kelly Sott, delivered. TV Guide reported Wednesday. When the guard inspected the toothbrush's battery compartment, he found a brownish substance that appeared to be heroin, the complaint said. A field test later...

The number of deaths due to drug abuse in Scotland rose from 455 in 2007 to 574 in 2008, General Register Office for Scotland reported Wednesday. The Scotsman reported experts say they think part of the reason the death rate is growing is there are many older drug users, many of whom have been addicts for years. The report indicated the trend appears to be steadily upwards. We launched in January a new drug-related deaths database to look at the circumstances behind each death, rather than...