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It’s hard to tell with those costumes on but that is our staff today at Clearbrook. With all the self-searching, honesty, and life changes that we ask our patients to make, we also thoroughly [...]

Wisconsin’s newest effort to combat the ever growing problem of heroin addiction. An off shoot of the drug court model many counties use, they’ve specifically called it “Heroin Court”.

At seven years sober my mind, or now knowing in hindsight, my disease told me taking these prescription pills for my pain was OK and I could manage this by myself. I was addicted and didn’t know [...]

Heroin addiction is currently the worst addiction and vastly spreading. From the rural countryside to our urban cities, people are dying from this deadly substance.

Before my 30th birthday I had become a full blown alcoholic and heroin addict. Before I knew it, I was ready to die.

A woman in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania was arrested for attempting to sell heroin to a patient at an inpatient rehab.

If the history of developing policy for drug addiction has taught us anything, it is that we cannot prescribe or arrest our way out of this epidemic.

There are millions of people that are locked up in our jails and prisons for crimes relating to drugs. In 2014, 1.5 million people were arrested for drug law violations. Of those 1.5 million, [...]

“Our results suggest that abstinence-focused, 12-step residential treatment may be able to help young adults recover from opioid addiction through a different pathway than the more typical [...]

Heroin...The epidemic sweeping across our nation. This past weekend in Chicago there were 75 overdoses from heroin use. This was just one weekend, in one city in America. This is going on [...]