'Rehab With Dr. Drew' a Tough Reality for St. Petersburg Family

'Rehab With Dr. Drew' a tough reality for St. Petersburg family

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But as a licensed counselor at WestCare, a substance abuse treatment center in St. Petersburg, Jacobsen recognized the family's signs of classic codependency. "It is a family disease … (parents) enable them to continue in both worlds," she said …
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Parents Not Alone Dealing with Teen Substance Abuse

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Collectively, these women's experiences include: co-parenting through the many issues involving wilderness programs, treatment centers and sober living environments; decades of living and coping with family members alcohol abuse and alcoholism; …
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California prosecutors seek to jump start death penalty

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They're calling for an end-run around the legal hang ups, calling for the scrapping of the three-drug lethal injection at the center of the litigation and replacing it with a single-drug execution. Six other states have already abandoned the three-drug …
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California Researchers Name Two Drugs that Make a Good 'First Treatment …

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A group of researchers from California found acamprosate (marketed as Campral) and naltrexone (ReVia) as good first option for treating people with alcohol problems. The two drugs are commonly used in treating alcoholism, are both non-addictive, and …
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