health care

Valiant Recovery Now Offers Financing for Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation

...  British Columbia, understands that the cost of rehabilitation treatment should not prevent someone from getting the help they need for their addiction. Read more on PR Leap (press release)Leave drug addiction treatment out of your austerity cuts, experts warn … So I think it's very important that vulnerable… Continue reading

Minn. Nurses Board Moves to Step Up Sanctions

...  nurses board moves to step up sanctions It also hopes lawmakers will grant authority to sanction a nurse who has failed a state monitoring program for health care professionals with substance abuse or mental problems. As it stands now, the board can't act until it has proven that a… Continue reading

Womyn's Film Night Screens LGBT Movies in Ferndale

...  a member of Iran's … Read more on pride source.comNelson Mandela's granddaughter, Zoleka, describes battles with cancer, drug … Following successful rehab, Zoleka now glows in sobriety. The book also recounts her battle with breast cancer — she had a bilateral mastectomy and underwent chemotherapy. "For me, what… Continue reading

To Improve Foster Care, Add a Psychiatric Nurse to Treatment Team

...  Improve Foster Care, Add a Psychiatric Nurse to Treatment Team Bertram's work, which appeared in the December issue of the Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, described her role on a treatment team that studied foster youth and chronicled reactions to her involvement from case workers and teens. J. Curtis McMillen… Continue reading

Residential Alcohol Treatment Can Help Control Drinking

...  suffering from addiction as social pariahs. I hope that as we grapple … Read more on Morning SentinelOfficials say resources for teens are lacking Lincoln County and Ruidoso don't have the community resources needed to treat teenagers with drug addiction problems — whether it be prescription or illicit,… Continue reading

Survivor of Deadly TN Church Bus Crash Talks About Crash, Recovery

...  of deadly TN church bus crash talks about crash, recovery Since then, 12 other members of that church group have been recovering in area hospitals, rehab centers, and at their homes. Doris Swaim is one of those, and considering what she's been through, she is remarkably upbeat. "I am,… Continue reading