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Residential Treatment is a level of care that entails that the client live (resides) within a treatment facility for a specified duration of care; most often 28 days. Residential Treatment Programs and Centers usually include group and individual therapy sessions and span the confinement continuum from open campus to lock down facilities. Inpatient Treatment is most often residential in that they require that the client live within the facility during treatment. Inpatient treatment centers and programs are a higher level of care than outpatient programs and provide more intensive services and treatment than lower levels of the care continuum.Substance Abuse
Substance abuse has a range of definitions related to disaproval over use or overuse of mood altering substances. These fall into four main categories: Substance abuse may lead to addiction or substance dependence. Medicaly, dependence requires the development of tolerance leading to withdrawal symptoms.Oxycodone Addiction
Oxycodone works by stimulating certain opoid receptors that are located throughout the central nervous system, in the brain and along the spinal cord. When the oxycodone binds to the opoid receptors, a variety of physiologic responses can occur ranging from pain relief, to slowed breathing to euphoria. Withdrawal reactions include anxiety, irritability, sweating, trouble sleeping and diarrhea.
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Substance Abuse Programs
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Addiction Treatment Center
Substance abuse information and treatment resources
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Addiction Resource Guide
Comprehensive listing of addiction treatment facilities
- Clinical
Trials
Information for health consumers on medical treatment research at the
National Institutes of Health and participation in clinical trials
- Daytop
Village
Services available at the oldest and largest drug-free self-help program
in the United States
- Drug
and Alcohol Recovery Network Database of over 12,000 drug and
alcohol treatment facilities
- Drughelp
Referral network provides information on public and private treatment
programs, family support groups, and crisis centers in the United States
- Illinois Institute for Addiction Recovery
The IIAR provides comprehensive hospital-based addiction
services for chemical, gambling, Internet, food, sex, and compulsive
spending addictions as well as chronic pain with addiction. Inpatient and
outpatient counseling and treatment services are available for both adults
and adolescents, as well as extended care services for those 18 years or
older.
- Interventions
Comprehensive resources on performing an addiction intervention and also provides free access and helpline to speak with an Interventionist.
- Odyssey
House
Drug-free residential treatment community
- Phoenix
House
Nonprofit substance abuse services organization offering nationwide
residential treatment communities for adults and adolescents
- SAMHSA
Treatment Facility Locator
Searchable government database of substance abuse treatment facilities
in the U.S.
Consumer Issues
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20 Tips to Help Prevent Medical Errors
Guidelines
from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- Choosing
the Right Mental Health Therapist Consumer tips pamphlet suggests
referral issues, questions to ask, and resources
- HealthGrades
Consumer-oriented site rates hospitals, physicians, health plans, nursing
homes, home health programs, chiropractors, acupuncturists, and other
health providers
- Mental
Health Patient's Bill of Rights
Guide
suggests what to look for in mental health and substance abuse services
provided by managed care and other insurance plans
- Protecting
Yourself Against Health Fraud
U.S. Food and Drug Administration links to information about health
quackery, telemarketing scams, and other fraudulent practices
- Quackwatch
Exposes scams in the world of health care
- Talk
to Someone Who Can Help
American Psychological Association suggestions for finding help for
health (mind/body), work, and family/relationship issues; also includes
information on "dotcomsense," using the Internet safely
Law and Ethics
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