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

Charles Lieber, pioneer in alcoholism research

Dr. Charles S. Lieber, who overturned conventional wisdom by demonstrating that alcohol is a toxin that can damage the liver and that alcoholism is a disease that can be treated, died March 1 at his home in Tenafly, N.J. He was 78 and had been battling stomach cancer. Before his work in the 1970s, researchers….

Radiotherapy for cancer treatment

Radiotherapy is also commonly known as radiation therapy, which is also used for cancer treatment. As the name suggests, radiotherapy involves the use of radiations, the ionizing radiations, for treating cancer. These ionizing radiations “injure or destroy” the affected cancerous cells, hampering their “growth” and “division”. It is likely, the normal cells also being damaged,….

Prenatal Alcohol Exposure Damages White Matter, The Brain's Connective Network

One part of the prenatal brain that may be particularly sensitive to alcohol’s effects is white matter, nerve fibers through which information is exchanged between different areas of the central nervous system. A recent study has demonstrated that alcohol consumption during pregnancy can alter the microstructural integrity of developing fetal cerebral white matter in the….

Tide turns in favour of drug reform

One hundred years ago, the US convened the International Opium Conference. This meeting of 13 nations in Shanghai was the beginning of global drug prohibition. Prohibition slowly became one of the most universally applied policies in the world. But a century on, international support for this blanket drug policy is slowly but inexorably unravelling. In….

Drug addiction treatment center too costly, Broward County auditor says

Broward agency disputes it’s overstaffed and calls for review by consultants Broward County taxpayers could be spending too much to run a recovery center for drug addicts. A scathing report by county auditors last week charged that treatment at the Broward Addiction Recovery Center is about twice as costly as the national average. Too few….

Akron, Ohio Treatment Centers

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Charles Lieber, pioneer in alcoholism research

Radiotherapy for cancer treatment

Prenatal Alcohol Exposure Damages White Matter, The Brain's Connective Network

Tide turns in favour of drug reform

Drug addiction treatment center too costly, Broward County auditor says