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Carfentanil, a sedative used for elephants and other large animals, is now being linked to a rash of heroin overdoses in Ohio cities. In July alone, they have encountered 236 drug overdoses, 20 [...]

With the recent attention that opioid addiction is receiving, it may be quite easy to forget the addiction to other drugs and their potential to grow to epidemic proportions as well. Moreover, [...]

What’s really getting in the way of your sobriety? At Clearbrook Treatment Centers, we’re hopeful we can offer you a first step towards recovery. At Clearbrook, we’re familiar with excuses and [...]

Last Friday, President Obama signed the Comprehensive Addiction Recovery Act into law. The new legislation is intended to generate new treatment programs, prevention methods and alternatives to [...]

It is common for alcoholics and addicts to struggle with the concept of God and spirituality in early sobriety. Alcoholics Anonymous is a program founded upon spiritual principles, not religious [...]

Chemical dependency, or simply, addiction, is a multifaceted disease. Therefore, the treatment of addiction cannot rely solely on one method or form of therapy. One of these practices, music [...]

The Obama Administration just recently announced their efforts to ease the restrictions on buprenorphine, or more commonly known as Suboxone. The president plans to almost triple that number to [...]

Many feel threatened with the prospect of opening up to total strangers. Group Therapy is a powerful tool; sometimes it is more effective than Individual Therapy. Addicts have the opportunity [...]

You might think you know all about addiction. Then, there are some things you could stand to learn about addiction. In 1987, they expanded on the definition to officially term addiction as a [...]

Focusing on addiction and acquiring more resources for drug treatment has been the priority of Governor Wolf in 2016. . In 2014, 2,500 people lost their battle to addiction. That number grew to [...]