American Addiction Centers Goes Public  

Brentwood-based American Addiction Centers will begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange today. Doing business as AAC Holdings Inc., the company has priced its common stock at $15 per share, representing net proceeds for the IPO of $65.6 million. Shares will be traded under the ticker symbol “AAC.” American Addiction Centers, founded in 2004, operate 467 beds at six facilities throughout the U.S.

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‘Mild Alcoholics’ Offered New Pill to Stop Drinking Too Much DEBATE

This pill really represents, it seems to me, the growing medicalisation of perfectly normal and harmless human behaviour by the overweening state. The human condition is tough and we all seek out altered states to escape it, whether it’s caffeine, alcohol, nicotine, a spliff or whatever. But the vast majority of us know our self-medication requirements far better than any doctor does. We don’t beat up our partners, mistreat our children or turn up to work late and incapacitated.

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Alcohol: Deadliest Drug in the United States, and It’s Not Even Close

Which intoxicating substance is associated with the most lethal violence? Devotees of the Wire might presume that cocaine or maybe heroin would top the list, especially if you asked the worst causes of violence in poor, minority communities. The correct answer, by far, is alcohol. It’s involved in more homicides than pretty much every other substance, combined. Alcohol’s relative importance has grown over the last fifteen years, as aging populations of cocaine users account for a declining proportion of violent crime.

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OPINION: Most People With Addiction Simply Grow Out of It

While treatment can often support the principles of natural recovery, too often it does the opposite. For example, many programs interfere with healthy family and romantic relationships by isolating patients. Some threaten employment and education, suggesting or even requiring that people quit jobs or school to “focus on recovery,” when doing so might do more harm than good.

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Detroit Mansion to Become Drug Addiction Retreat 

Self-help guru Brad Lamm will run the retreat and live in the mansion. “Palmer Woods is a residential community … It’s not zoned for commercial use or a group home,” she said. “There are clear zoning guidelines and a rehab center is not zoned for Palmer Woods.” Officials with Breathe Life Healing Centers told The Detroit News that the 28-room, Tudor Revival-style building will be a “spiritual retreat.”

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Drug Addiction Seen as ‘Moral Failing’

“In recent years, it has become more socially acceptable to talk publicly about one’s struggles with mental illness. But with addiction, the feeling is that the addict is a bad or weak person, especially because much drug use is illegal,” she added. The survey revealed that only 22 percent of people would be willing to work closely on a job with someone with a drug addiction, while 62 percent said they would do so with a person with a mental illness. About 30 percent of respondents believed that recovery from either drug addiction or mental illness is impossible.

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Denver Neighborhood Wants to Stop Drug Rehab Moving In VIDEO

The plane is to turn a now vacant building at East 17th Avenue and Gaylord Street into a treatment center that would help heroin addicts from 5:30 a.m. until early afternoon six days a week. Neighbors met for the first time Thursday night to see what they can do to stop the clinic from moving in. The simple answer is ‘not very much.’ “They are permitted to use these facilities, it’s a use by right approach, I don’t think there’s much we can do on this one,” a neighbor said.

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Russian Psychologist Claims to Cure Alcoholics, Drug, Sex Addicts with Whipping

Dr. Sergei Speransky said that his treatment involves thrashing patients across the bottom up to 60 times, the Daily Star reported. He said that his patients have seen that this treatment is working where everything else has failed and it worked for him, and that he’s not a sadist, but still advocates caning. He said that they cane the patients on the buttocks with a clear and definite medical purpose – it is not some warped sado-masochistic activity. )

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Zoe Ball Admits Breaking Her Sobriety VIDEO

The It Takes Two host, 43, revealed in an interview with Essentials magazine that although she is no longer abstaining from alcohol she can’t drink as much as she used to. Ball, who married DJ Fatboy Slim in 1999, gave up alcohol ten years into their marriage on the morning of New Year’s Day 2009 following a party of ‘total carnage’. The same year she gave up alcohol was the year that her husband, real name Norman Cook, checked into rehab for alcohol abuse. Speaking back in 2010, the former radio presenter revealed: ‘I sat sobbing, knowing if I didn’t stop I’d end up in a mental home. I called a therapist I’d been seeing and asked for help.’

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Worried You’re Becoming an Alcoholic? There’s a Pill for That

Since the drug only helps regulate rather than eliminate alcohol consumption, it is recommended for mild alcoholics who want to curb their drinking problem rather than stop cold turkey. Men who consume over 7.5 units of alcohol (about four pints) or women who consume over five will be eligible for the treatment, thus meaning about 600,000 people in England and Wales who would want to reduce their drinking qualify. According to the International Business Times, the new program is expected to cost taxpayers $288,000,000 a year.

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Michael Phelps Goes To Rehab After DUI Arrest VIDEO

“I recognize that this is not my first lapse in judgment, and I am extremely disappointed with myself,” Phelps said. “I’m going to take some time away to attend a program that will provide the help I need to better understand myself. Swimming is a major part of my life, but right now I need to focus my attention on me as an individual, and do the necessary work to learn from this experience and make better decisions in the future.” “Every day you’re out of the water it takes about a half day to develop that feel that you’ve missed,” he added – so if Phelps stops training for six weeks, it would take three weeks to get back.

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Warning Labels About Cancer On Alcohol: Do We Need Them? 

How would you feel if your bottle of merlot or cider came with a health warning about the increased risk of cancer from drinking alcohol? Doesn’t sound like an idea to be warmly embraced by those who like a drink but the findings of a recent survey of more than 2000 drinkers suggests we might be more receptive than you’d think. They found that younger, more educated drinkers – especially women – were more likely to find the messages believable and relevant. Especially interesting was the finding that heavy drinkers – those tippling more than two drinks a day and more than four drinks in one sitting – were also more likely to consider the messages personally relevant than people who drank less.

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Overdose Deaths Double  

Although deaths from heroin overdoses have increased dramatically, deaths from narcotic painkillers still far outnumber them. In 2012 alone, more than twice as many people died from prescription narcotic overdoses as died from heroin in these states, the report said.

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