Akron, Ohio Treatment Centers

Community Health Center RAMAR Residential Treatment Center 380 South Portage Path
Akron, OH 44320

Mature Services Inc D Bruce Mansfield Center 365 South Portage Path
Akron, OH 44320

Urban Ounce of Prevention Services Exodus Program 1735 South Hawkins Avenue
Akron, OH 44320

Dept of Veterans Affairs/Akron Community Based Outpatient Clinics 95 West Waterloo Road
Akron, OH 44319

Interval Brotherhood Homes Inc Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Center 3445 South Main Street
Akron, OH 44319

Community Health Center Womens Recovery Program 838 Coburn Street
Akron, OH 44311

Saint Thomas Hospital Ignatia Hall Summa Health System 444 North Main Street
Akron, OH 44310

Oriana House Alcohol and Drug Crisis Center 15 Frederick Street
Akron, OH 44310

Summit County Health District Counseling Services 177 South Broadway Street
Akron, OH 44308

Community Health Center Community Drug Board Inc 725 East Market Street
Akron, OH 44305

Alcohol abuse can damage the brain by decreasing insulin and insulin-like growth factor receptors

Too much alcohol can cause permanent brain damage, such as Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, which is largely related to thiamine deficiency. Previous animal studies have shown that alcohol can also cause brain injury and degeneration by inhibiting insulin and insulin-like growth factor (IGF). A new study using postmortem human brain tissue has found that chronic alcohol abuse….

Minneapolis lawmaker wants to legalize teen drinking in some situations

The hazards of binge drinking have been well documented, both for those of legal drinking age and those under 21. The problem, as State Representative Phyllis Kahn sees it, is that young people never learn first-hand how to drink responsibly. The veteran Minneapolis Democrat’s solution would be to legalize teen drinking in certain circumstances, in….

Sobriety leads to new role as a guide

Marilu Thornburgh’s outgoing personality has been built upon a survivor’s instinct. There was a time when her world was perilously close to collapse. A time when co-dependency and her subsequent descent into alcoholism prevailed. But Thornburgh did survive, she got help to overcome her problems and has been sober since the 1990s. Now she readily….

Research finds gene bringing together animal and human research in alcoholism

An important genetic study conducted through Mayo Clinic has identified vital new information concerning alcoholism in subjects with European ancestry, according to a recent issue of Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental Research. Research findings indicate that alcohol dependence is highly inheritable, although specific genes and their variations associated with this illness remain unknown. Animal model studies….

12-Step Treatment Programs and the Spiritual Foundation for Recovery

When Alcoholic’s Anonymous first began in the early 1930s, more than 75% of all addicts who took part in the program actually made a full recovery from their addiction to alcohol. These numbers are actually very high when compared with many of today’s current treatment modalities. Alcoholics Anonymous was the first to coin the 12-step….

Akron, Ohio Treatment Centers

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Alcohol abuse can damage the brain by decreasing insulin and insulin-like growth factor receptors

Minneapolis lawmaker wants to legalize teen drinking in some situations

Sobriety leads to new role as a guide

Research finds gene bringing together animal and human research in alcoholism

12-Step Treatment Programs and the Spiritual Foundation for Recovery