Birmingham, Alabama Treatment Centers

University of Alabama at Birmingham Addiction Recovery Program 1713 6th Avenue South
Birmingham, AL 35294

Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center 700 South 19th Street
Birmingham, AL 35233

Bradford Health Services Birmingham Regional Office/Jefferson 300 Century Park South
Suite 100 Birmingham, AL 35226

Aletheia House Women Only 4246 5th Avenue South
Birmingham, AL 35222

AIDS Alabama Living in Balance 2112 Avenue H
Ensley Birmingham, AL 35218

Zukoski Outpatient 601 Princeton Avenue SW
Birmingham, AL 35211

Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Centers Inc/Pearson Hall 2701 Jefferson Avenue SW
Birmingham, AL 35211

Tri County Treatment Center 5605 Clifford Circle
Birmingham, AL 35210

Birmingham Metro Treatment Center 151 Industrial Drive
Birmingham, AL 35211

University of Alabama at Birmingham Beacon Addiction Treatment Center 401 Beacon Parkway West Suite 150
Birmingham, AL 35209

Alcohol addiction

Alcohol addiction can be described as a compulsive need of toxic liquids. This can be anything containing alcohol wine, beer, whiskey, or vodka. Person is called alcohol addict when, he or she is unable to abstain from drinking. This is very primary stage of alcohol addiction. If person has symptoms like nausea, sweatiness or shaking….

Alcoholic Gary Reinbach dead at 22 after transplant refused

A man has died of alcoholic liver failure at the age of just 22 despite a public appeal from his doctors for transplant rules to be waived to give him a chance at life. Gary Reinbach and his family were told that unless he could prove that he could live alcohol-free in the community for….

Why Doctors Are Giving Heroin to Heroin Addicts

Treating heroin addicts by giving them heroin might seem counterintuitive. But for some of the most hardened addicts, administering heroin in supervised clinics may just do the trick where detox and methadone have failed. Following the lead of Switzerland and a handful of other countries, Britain recently concluded a four-year trial in which longtime addicts….

Youth Alcohol Binges on the Rise, Health Expert Warns

It’s time for Seventh-day Adventists to do more in getting the word out about the dangers of alcohol use and binge drinking among young people, according to DeWitt Williams, health ministries director for the church in North America. Williams points out that the alcohol industry spends a staggering $11 million a day on advertising in….

Governments’ Drug-Abuse Costs Hit $468 Billion, Study Says

Government spending related to smoking and the abuse of alcohol and illegal drugs reached $468 billion in 2005, accounting for more than one-tenth of combined federal, state and local expenditures for all purposes, according to a new study. Most abuse-related spending went toward direct health care costs for lung disease, cirrhosis and overdoses, for example,….

Birmingham, Alabama Treatment Centers

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Alcohol addiction

Alcoholic Gary Reinbach dead at 22 after transplant refused

Why Doctors Are Giving Heroin to Heroin Addicts

Youth Alcohol Binges on the Rise, Health Expert Warns

Governments’ Drug-Abuse Costs Hit $468 Billion, Study Says