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The Last House
The Basics Located in the LA neighborhood of Mar Vista, California, The Last House operates two sober living homes for men, typically between the ages of 20 and 34. Solidarity and unity are emphasized...
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Community Recovery Transitional Living
The Basics For more than 20 years, Community Recovery in Los Angeles, California has provided comprehensive residential, outpatient and transitional care options for clients struggling with substance...
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Skunk Weed May Cause Brain Damage
I always thought “skunk” was a term for the black and white mammal that sprays stank when scared or a six-pack of beer gone bad (for example, “Due to excessive sun exposure, this Heineken is skunked”)....
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Three Hard-Learned Lessons Gleaned from Doing Drugs
Over on Cracked, a reasonably normal-sounding guy summed up six lessons he learned when he “accidentally took PCP and went crazy.” What he describes is equal parts hilarious and terrifying, the latter...
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Community Recovery
The Basics For over 20 years, Community Recovery has provided comprehensive residential, detox, outpatient, Intensive Outpatient Programs (IOP) and transitional living options for clients struggling...
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Benefits Healthcare
The Basics Benefits Healthcare offers both short-term inpatient and outpatient services for substance abuse and mental health issues. Located in Great Falls, Montana, this non-profit community hospital...
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Avalon Correctional Services
The Basics Avalon Correctional Services operates work release facilities that offer inpatient treatment programs to assist inmates in transitioning from life in prison back to their communities. ACS...
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Joseph R. Briscoe Treatment Center
The Basics The Joseph R. Briscoe Treatment Center is a 46-bed residential treatment and detox facility in Lake Charles, Louisiana—a mid-sized city in the southwest region of the state. Home to many...
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Sage Transition
The Basics Founded in 2011, by Rebecca Marder who is a certified life coach and Master’s-level counselor, Sage Transition is a high end sober living home for women in Los Angeles, California. Their...
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Awareness and Discovery
The Basics Awareness and Discovery is a multi-location counseling and treatment facility in Northern Kentucky that offers an Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) for substance abuse and addiction in its...
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The Atlantic City Rescue Mission
The Basics The Atlantic City Rescue Mission (ACRM) was founded in 1964 by John Fink. Fink’s mission was to “preach the gospel and meet physical, emotional and other basic needs of the community through...
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Behavioral Health Services of Pickens County
The Basics Based in the small city of Pickens, South Carolina, Behavioral Health Services of Pickens County provides a host of recovery and community services to the greater county of Pickens, which...
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Axis 1 Center of Barnwell
The Basics Since 1973, Axis 1 Center of Barnwell has been providing counseling services to the residents of Barnwell, South Carolina—a small boarder town roughly 40 miles from Augusta. Axis 1 offers an...
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Southeast Intervention Group, Inc.: Step by Step Recovery
The Basics The Southeast Intervention Group, a state-funded company founded by Dr. Larry R. Kirkland, Jr., runs residential recovery programs for men and women recovering from chemical dependency. The...
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Asian American Drug Abuse Program
The Basics Since 1972, the Asian American Drug Abuse Program (AADAP) has served the Asian Pacific Islander community of Los Angeles with comprehensive behavioral health and substance abuse treatment...
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Bridge Street Counseling
The Basics Located in downtown Brighton, Colorado, Bridge Street Counseling is a modest substance abuse services facility which provides an enhanced outpatient program, DUI classes and mental health...
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Smoking Pot Eases Opiate Withdrawal (Duh)
Need to get off opiates? Well, there’s medication-assisted treatment, Narcotics Anonymous or you can just smoke weed instead. Cannibis Now recently reported that people coming off painkillers and other...
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What It’s Like to Not Black out over the Holidays
When I was a kid, the holidays were about making a list for Santa, marking pages in the JC Penney toys catalogue, baking Christmas cookies with my mom and siblings and singing “Rudolph the Red Nosed...
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DAWNS House
The Basics Founded in 2015 in Bend, Oregon, by Dawn Holland-Rogers, who is in recovery, DAWNS House provides sober living for newly clean and sober women fresh out of rehab or jail. Besides being named...
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Benilde Hall Program
The Basics Located in Kansas City, Missouri, the Benilde Hall Program offers transitional living and permanent housing for adult men. Created in 1993, this program serves the indigent homeless...
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