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		<title>Addiction and Mental Health Parity explained</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the mental health parity laws going into effect in October of 2009, the levels of health care available to those struggling from addiction or mental health issues have increased. Under the new Wellstone Parity Act, group health policies and employers must provide equal or higher coverage to addiction and mental illness as they would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suboxone- the pluses and minuses</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suboxone (or buprenorphin) seems to be all the rage these days. With the power of the multi-lateral corporation Reckitt Benckiser (whose exclusive license on Suboxone brought in fifteen percent of their overall revenue in 2009), a huge push is being made to medical doctors to prescribe Suboxone as a way to combat heroin use. Since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Increasing Substance Abuse levels in older adults</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a press release by SAMHSA, treatment providers and families should be expecting a &#8220;dramatic increase&#8221; in substance abuse among adults 50 and older.The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is the US government agency faced with the goal of improving the quality and availability of prevention, treatment, and rehabilitative services for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new year, a new start.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a new year (and a new decade as well, depending on who you ask) upon us, we in the addiction world often see many people come to us with New Years resolutions, things such as:
&#8220;2010 will be the year I get sober.&#8221;
&#8220;Maybe I should cut down on my drinking.&#8221;
&#8220;This is the year I talk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Addiction at Home and in the Workplace</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. A. Thomas McLellan, one of the leading researchers on addiction and a psychology professor at the University of Pennsylvania, recently shared his story with the New York Times. Dr. McLellan recently accepted a position with the U.S. government, at the invitation of Vice President Joe Biden, to be the nation&#8217;s number two drug control [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recovery and the Holiday Season</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The holidays tend to be a tough time for any family struggling with substance abuse or other compulsive disorders. Since there seems to be quite a bit of family time, a family member who may be using drugs or recently out of treatment will most certainly be exposed to more family time than they&#8217;re used [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Methadone Deaths on Wyoming Reservations</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, families are mourning the deaths of three girls from methadone overdoses. CNN posted this interesting and terrible article this morning, talking about the tragic deaths of girls ages 13, 14 and 15. The three girls were sleeping over on a night just before starting a new semester of high school- and never made it home. On a reservation that has seen its share of drug and alcohol-related deaths, the loss of three young teenagers really struck home.]]></description>
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		<title>The Genetic Link to Addiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article on CNNMoney.com today spoke about the genetic link to addiction. Although widely acknowledged throughout the addiction treatment community, itâ€™s nice to see additional research showing the link between addiction and genetics. According to Dr. David Goldman, the director of the Laboratory of Neurogenetics at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, said that according to the massive study they completed of addiction in twins, addiction ranks â€œamong the most heritable of mental illnesses.â€]]></description>
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		<title>Overdose News</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to an article posted yesterday night on USA Today, prescription drugs and other pills are now the leading cause of overdosing, ahead of things like heroin and cocaine. According to the Center For Disease Control, prescription pills now account for the majority of the over 26,000 fatal overdoses each year. In previous years, up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heroin for Heroin Addicts?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting post in Time Magazine today touched on a new British trial, over the last four years, of providing free daily heroin injections as a method to wean them off the drugs. Since the results of the trial were positive (i.e. lower street drug use, lower crime rate among participates, etc.), officials are talking [...]]]></description>
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