January 2011

New director of ADAMHS has experience with agency

More info…DAYTON A former chairman of the Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services Board of Montgomery County will become executive director of the agency July 1.Helen Jones-Kelley, a Clayton resident, will replace longtime executive director Joe Szoke, who has held the position since 1990. Szoke plans to retire for a second time June 30. [...]

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Training The Brain To Think Ahead In Addiction

More info…The growing numbers of new cases of substance abuse disorders are perplexing. After all, the course of drug addiction so often ends badly. The negative consequences of drug abuse appear regularly on TV, from stories of celebrities behaving in socially inappropriate and self-destructive ways while intoxicated to dramatization of the rigors of drug withdrawal [...]

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DDN: Ousted State Director To Lead County Drug, Alcohol Board

More info…The state agency director who authorized the background search on Joe the Plumber during the 2008 presidential campaign has been hired as the executive director of the Alcohol, Drug Addiction & Mental Health Services Board of Montgomery County. The board voted to hire Helen Jones-Kelley effective July 1 at a salary of $145,000 a [...]

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Victims Assistance Program gets help

More info…The Lake County Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services board agreed Monday to fill in funding gaps effective Feb. 14 to restore after-business hours service for the Victims Assistance Program. Drug Rehabilitation Alternatives rehabilitation centers

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Passages Malibu Drug & Alcohol Treatment Center Announces Co-Branding Alliance with Top National Magazine Psychology …

More info…Passages Malibu, the world-renowned, state-of-the-art one-on-one holistic drug and alcohol treatment center, today announced an exclusive new strategic alliance with Pyschology Today, the nations leading magazine dedicated to promoting mental health with an audience reach of 3 Million per issue. Drug Rehabilitation Alternatives rehabilitation centers

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Overhaul proposed in treatment of area alcohol and drug addicts

More info…DAYTON A two-year study of Montgomery Countys alcohol and drug addiction services recommends an overhaul of the system, making treatment more individualized and immediate.Were trying to get our community as close to a treatment-on-demand system as possible, said Andrea M. Hoff, a program coordinator for Montgomery Countys Office of Family and Children First. Solutions [...]

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