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  2. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    Its treatment centers are modeled after the Healing Place, also part of the network, in Louisville. “Clients work with peers in similar circumstances to motivate one another to adopt social skills and to learn core principles central to Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous programs,” according to the facility’s promotional materials.

  3. Drug paraphernalia - Wikipedia

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    In the ancient time the spoons were used to ingest psychotropic substances, [12] in the 18th century − tobacco, [13] in the 20th century − cocaine (the spoon is thus also known as a cocaine spoon or coke spoon). Some local statutes in the US treat this spoon as drug paraphernalia, defining it as a spoon that is too small and thus "unsuited ...

  4. Drug rehabilitation - Wikipedia

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    Drug rehabilitation is the process of medical or psychotherapeutic treatment for dependency on psychoactive substances such as alcohol, prescription drugs, and street drugs such as cannabis, cocaine, heroin, and amphetamines.

  5. Fish scale - Wikipedia

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    A fish scale is a small rigid plate that grows out of the skin of a fish. The skin of most jawed fishes is covered with these protective scales, which can also provide effective camouflage through the use of reflection and colouration, as well as possible hydrodynamic advantages.

  6. Action on Addiction - Wikipedia

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    In Spring 2011, the charity introduced a family treatment program at a prison in Bridgend, South Wales. [7] Treatment centres include Clouds House [8] and Hope House. [9] [10] [11] Clouds House is a Grade II listed building near the village of East Knoyle. [12] [13] The charity also has a recovery dry bar in Liverpool, called The Brink. [8] [14]

  7. Prisoners of Profit - The Huffington Post

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    Officials at the state Department of Juvenile Justice did not respond to questions about YSI. A department spokeswoman, Meghan Speakes Collins, pointed to overall improvements the state has made in its contract monitoring process, such as conducting more interviews with randomly selected youth to get a better understanding of conditions and analyzing problematic trends such as high staff turnover.

  8. Addiction - Wikipedia

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    Where increasing adherence to treatment regimes and maintaining abstinence is the target; art therapists can aid by customizing treatment directives (encourage the client to create collages that compare pros and cons, pictures that compare past and present and future, and drawings that depict what happened when a client went off medication). [208]

  9. Washington Corrections Center for Women - Wikipedia

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    The Purdy Treatment Center for Women opened in 1971 with dormitory quarters for 162 women. [8] The first inmates were 92 transferees from the Washington State Penitentiary . In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the facility heightened its security level, building a 272-bed minimum-security prison facility in 1992, a 102-bed close-custody unit in ...