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Major Cities in California with Drug Rehab and Treatment Centers:
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Drug Rehab California
is here to help people with drug and/or alcohol abuse problems in California. find treatment options. Due to our diverse networking system we can find a treatment option tailored to each individuals specific situation and needs. We are able to provide all phases of recovery included but not limited to, alcohol and/or drug intervention, drug and/or alcohol detox, in-patient treatment, out-patient treatment, short term treatment (30 days or less), long term treatment (90 days or longer).
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We design personalized treatment programs to provide each abuser with the greatest chance of a successful recovery outcome. Our comprehensive networking system works hand in hand with all of the drug treatment centers in California. At Drug Rehab California we know that each individual is unique and are treated as such. Deciding upon a treatment option in California, or anywhere can be a daunting task for any individual or family, we will guide you through each step of a comprehensive treatment plan for you or your loved one. We are determined in our mission, that every drug and/or alcohol abuser in California. that has a desire to change their life will be given a chance to recover from their addiction and we are dedicated to ensuring that they are given the opportunity to do so.
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We realize that each individual in California. is in a different financial situation and we will find treatment options for each individual regardless of their financial situation. No matter what your financial situation everyone will receive the treatment help they are looking for.
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California doctor seeks right to treat patients’ pain with drugs
When faced with pain, most people rush to the doctor expecting him or her to take action that will quickly relieve their suffering. But due to alleged misrepresentations or theological zealotry concerning the use of narcotics that lessen pain, government regulations have handcuffed qualified physicians to the point where they’re finding it near impossible to prescribe treatment for their patients. California Dr. Forest Tennant, a pain specialist and editor of Practical Pain Management, a magazine dedicated to educating pain treatment professionals, is campaigning to change the perception of pain medication and its use in treatment.
“We need to provide humanitarian treatment — just basic humanitarian care for people,” Tennant said. “People who take medicine for pain rarely get addicted. They can stop using these drugs any day.”
A 1966 graduate of the University of Kansas’ medical school, specializing in cardiology, Tennant spent his early career in sports medicine treating players in Major League Baseball and the National Football League for substance abuse. As a doctor with the Los Angeles Dodgers, Tennant worked with former pitcher Steve Howe who was suspended numerous times because of his addiction. He also worked in the NFL’s New York office and set up the league’s drug testing and treatment program.
Ironically, it was because of his background in fighting drug addiction that Tennant became a proponent of the use of pain medication. Tennant found a government system that was determined to prevent patients in pain from receiving drugs that could alleviate their discomfort.
“I fell into it because I knew something about narcotics,” he said. “I did pain work in the seventies and am one of the oldest persons who have been in the pain field.”
Tennant said that any objectivity about drugs had given way to biases and myths.
An addiction specialist, Tennant said, “People need to understand that they need to have the rights to get these drugs and doctors need to be able to prescribe them. When prescribed by knowledgeable physician, I’ve never seen anyone get addicted to prescribed drugs if they took them as prescribed. They don’t cause addiction or brain damage if taken as prescribed.”
In addition to his chores as editor of Practical Pain Management, Tennant operates the Palliative Pain Care Medical Clinic in West Covina, California and said that it was easy for trained, professional doctors to distinguish between those seeking medication based on a pain and those who are addicts. Likewise, he said, because of lawyers, politicians and insurance companies inability to distinguish, people in anguish were being denied treatments that could not only relieve their pain, but possibly save their lives.
“A lot of people in the government, and insurance companies too, would tell them to go home,” Tennant said. “We don’t want somebody to die just because of the pain. We have plenty of medication — plenty of techniques to help people.”
Tennant said that doctors should pursue all forms of treatment to relieve a person’s pain, but that should not exclude the use of pain medicine to assist.
“We advocate there is no bad pain treatment,” he said. “No one treatment is to substitute for another. Our point of view is that doctors start with the safest most accessible treatments. Just because they don’t want people to have morphine or Oxycontin for pain, that’s just ignorance.”
Tennant said that there are 500 doctors in California who specialize in pain treatment and that all doctors who treat pain have been targeted by the government for investigation.
Tennant said he had been practicing pain medicine since 1975 and first started having problems three years ago when insurance companies were complaining that pain treatment should be stopped.
“When you’ve tried the normal non-narcotic pain relievers to treat pain and you have to go on morphine or other narcotics to stop the pain, you should be allowed to do that,” Tennant said. “We have people who say you shouldn’t be allowed to do that .”
Tennant said that doctors have banded together because people need pain treatment and have adopted standards in their use in order to protect patients. But government regulations and agencies make it increasingly difficult to prescribe such treatments. Still, in California, the doctors were able to get the Patients Bill of Rights passed.
Tennant believes that through the dialogues created by publishing information through such literary organs as Practical Pain Management magazine, more and more people will be educated as to the realness of pain suffered by so many and the opportunities available to minimize the pain. Tennant said that lobbying groups are springing up all over the country designed to promote research and innovation.
“It used to be you had to go to bed or die,” Tennant said. “You can get your pain treated. The good Lord gave us the opium poppy for a reason. It’s almost the same as natural endorphins. That’s why it’s the God-given natural pain reliever that all animals and humans need to relieve pain and you don’t get addicted to these things if they are used by doctors in the proper dosage. People should have the right to choose these things if they feel it’s going to end the pain.”
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