Gulf Coast Addiction Treatment Opens Additional Facility to Help More People
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Turning people away from a recovery program due to lack of space should never be an option. Destin, FL (PRWEB) April 11, 2013. Gulf Coast Addiction Treatment's new facility allows the center to … “The steady increase in drug use and abuse points to a …
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For many, chronic pain leads to endless loop of doctors, drugs and desperation
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In 2012, more than 37 percent of the patients admitted to the state's hospitals for drug abuse treatment were addicted to prescription painkillers, three times more than were admitted for heroin, at a cost of approximately $ 400 million, according to an …
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Savage: Affordable Care Act Offers Opportunity to Combat Pain and Drug Abuse
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But until we as a society work to advance pain treatment options and support payment for more comprehensive pain management, doctors will use opioids to relieve suffering, and we will be challenged by prescription opioid abuse. Federal agencies are …
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