Boston, Massachusetts Treatment Centers

Fenway Community Health Center Substance Abuse Treatment Program 1340 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215

Substance Abuse Treatment Program VA Boston Healthcare System 150 South Huntington Avenue
Unit 116-B
Boston, MA 02130

Middlesex Human Service Agency Inc Answer House Recovery Home 5 G Street
Boston, MA 02127

Boston Public Health Commission Narcotic Addiction Clinic Meth Servs 300 Frontage Road
Boston, MA 02127

Boston Public Health Commission Transitions Long Island Health Campus
Boston, MA 02122

Volunteers of America Project Rebound Long Island Campus
Boston, MA 02122

Victory Programs Inc Joelyns Family Home 1 Long Island Road
Administration Building
Boston, MA 02122

Whittier Street Health Center 1290 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02120

Hope House Inc Recovery Home 8 Farnham Street
Boston, MA 02119

Habit OPCO 99 Topeka Street
Boston, MA 02118

Exercise may fight addiction

New approaches for treating and preventing drug addiction range from low-tech – regular exercise – to high-tech such as experimental vaccines aimed at helping to prevent former drug users from relapsing. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, is just as excited about both options. Of the two, though, exercise will probably….

Doctors want booze marketing ban

There should be a ban on all alcohol advertising, including sports and music sponsorship, doctors say. The British Medical Association said the crackdown on marketing was needed, along with an end to cut-price deals, to stop rising rates of consumption. The industry spends £800m a year on promoting drinks – just a quarter of which….

Housing Homeless Alcoholics Cuts Public Costs, Alcohol Use

Permanent housing for homeless patients with ongoing drinking problems can help reduce medical and social costs and lower alcohol consumption, researchers here said. In one year, the so-called “Housing First” program cut costs from about $8 million to $4 million across the study sample, Mary E. Larimer, Ph.D., of the University of Washington, and colleagues….

Thousands of youngsters cautioned for drink crimes

The number of children committing drink-related crime has rocketed by more than a quarter in four years, figures show. Nearly 40,000 children have been fined, cautioned or taken to court for abusing alcohol between 2003 and 2007, according to official statistics. More than 6,000 children aged ten to 15 were handed police cautions or taken….

Why Obama Isn’t Funding Needle Exchange Programs

Buried on page 795 of President Obama’s budget, released last Thursday, is a paragraph banning the federal funding of needle-exchange programs for drug addicts — an apparent about-face on his campaign promise to overturn that longstanding ban. To the further consternation of AIDS and addiction activists, a statement of support for needle exchange was recently….

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Exercise may fight addiction

Doctors want booze marketing ban

Housing Homeless Alcoholics Cuts Public Costs, Alcohol Use

Thousands of youngsters cautioned for drink crimes

Why Obama Isn’t Funding Needle Exchange Programs