Testing effort aimed at helping drug-dependent babies

Published July 30, 2013

Testing effort aimed at helping drug-dependent babies

Filed under: inpatient drug treatment programs

Eight Cincinnati area hospitals are instituting voluntary, universal drug-testing programs for expectant mothers in an effort to reduce the number of drug-dependent babies being born in the region. The Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Initiative — or NAS …
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Kessler Institute: Rehabilitation Hospital Sets the Standard for Excellence

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Kessler's Chief Medical Officer Bruce M. Gans, M.D. added that, “To be ranked second among the more than 1100 inpatient rehabilitation hospitals and units in the country is important recognition of Kessler's leadership not only in patient care, but in …
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Addiction is costly

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It is unconscionable for a young person with a heroin addiction to be admitted to a treatment program that is set up for 28 days and be told after six days that he or she is being discharged because insurance won't pay. No heroin addict gets better and …
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