Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...send them down the street," explains Julie Boynton, director of a six-month-old rehabilitation center in Los Angeles County that deals specifically with both conditions. "And the alcohol and drug programs won't take people who need medication to control their mental problems. So people , get fragmented treatment if they...
Talbott and his co-authors conclude that mental illness and substance abuse must be treated concurrently. When that happens, preliminary data indicate, suicide attempts and psychotic episodes rapidly decrease. Even so, there are no hard and fast rules for treatment. "Sometimes the chemical dependency is paramount, and you can't get to the psychiatric disorder until you come to grips with the addiction," says Dr. Robert Morse, director of addictive- disorders services at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., one of the few centers with an established track record. "Sometimes it's just the opposite...
...mentally ill youngsters. "There's been a tremendous grass-roots campaign to convince the mental health bureaucracy of the problem," says Kathleen Sciacca, a substance-abuse coordinator at Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center in New York. Indeed, this fall the National Institute of Mental Health plans to fund 13 pilot treatment programs. Says Talbott: "We know what approaches are necessary to treat these people. We just need to use them...
While three of Ronald Reagan's former aides were being grilled on Capitol Hill, two others were enduring rough treatment in the courts...
...justice is undergoing treatment which is not incapacitating and is short term," said spokesman Michael O'Hara. "The prognosis is excellent...