Make the Connection: Adolescent Chemical Dependency Treatment and Recovery

Make the Connection: Adolescent Chemical Dependency Treatment and Recovery – This video is aimed at parents and others concerned about adolescents who have problems with substance abuse. The film describes adolescent addiction and treatment in interviews by parents, adolescents, and treatment providers. This video was updated from the original version produced in 2007 by the Washington State Division of Alcohol and Substance Abuse (now Division of Behavioral Health & Recovery), funded by the national Center for Substance Abuse Prevention. The video was updated in May 2012 to add current contacts for the Washington State Recovery Help Line and other resources.

Who helps when adoptions unravel?

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The boy had been hospitalized twice, spent weekends at a residential treatment center, languished on a waiting list for a therapeutic group home, worked through several therapists and psychiatrists, and been subjected to various psychiatric medications …
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Hatching Ideas, and Companies, by the Dozens at MIT

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“The model of biomedical innovation relies on research coming out of universities, often funded by public money,” says Josephine Johnston, director of research at the Hastings Center, a bioethics research organization based in Garrison, N.Y.. Just a …
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Gracehaven treatment center not ready to go

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There are 2,173 residential treatment beds in programs nationwide, but only 678 are reserved exclusively for human-trafficking survivors, according to a recent report by the Polaris Project, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., that …
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