Monthly Archives: July 2009

Clinics, Consultations, Disorders, Doctors, Healthcare, Healthcare Professionals, Healthcare Services, Society, Therapies

Eating Disorder Treatment for Elite Clientele

Cliffside Malibu, an elegant recovery center on the Malibu coast, has long been a leading light in the California treatment community. Now, the center is pleased to announce its renewed commitment to helping eating disorder victims achieve physical and psychological wellness.

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Eating disorder treatment is a delicate art form. To be successful, it has to be administered exactly the right way, with a nuanced attention to detail. The best treatment facilities are those which pay closest attention to the unique individual needs of their unique individual clients. In the end, the healing process can’t go forward on any terms other than those.

That principle, in turn, is the bedrock of Cliffside Malibu’s eating disorder treatment philosophy.

With its expert caregivers and posh amenities, Cliffside Malibu is a world-class institution. The center has always catered to an elite clientele. Now Cliffside is expanding its mission, with the goal of delivering the best eating disorder therapy on the planet to those who need it. From Anorexia recovery to Bulimia treatment, at Cliffside Malibu nothing less than excellence will ever be acceptable.

“Eating disorder recovery depends first and foremost on the quality of eating disorder treatment,” said Cliffside Malibu Program Director Dr. Georgina Smith. “At Cliffside Malibu, we recognize that our treatment programs have the power to change lives, and we do everything in our power to live up to that responsibility. We believe that we owe that much to the clients who trust us with their health.”

That sense of obligation, in no uncertain terms, is precisely what distinguishes Cliffside from its competitors.

There’s no shortage of eating disorder treatment centers in Los Angeles. All too often, many of those clinics employ inexperienced or unqualified caregivers. Predictably, these facilities generally fall short of the promises they make to their clients—with disastrous consequences for those clients and the people who care about them.

Given the stakes in the eating disorder recovery process, that sort of failure is simply unacceptable.

“Eating disorders ruin lives,” said Patricia Freeberry, Cliffside’s Clinical Director. “Eating disorder treatment can help to fix what’s broken, but only if it’s delivered by people who know exactly what they’re doing. At Cliffside Malibu, our eating disorder specialists are the best in the world at what they do.”

Eating disorder victims don’t need to be told what they stand to lose in the fight against their diseases. What might not be so obvious, though, is the value of what they stand to win. Cliffside Malibu helps clients rediscover life as they used to know it, before anorexia and bulimia made them strangers to everything and everyone they’d ever cared about. It’s hard to imagine that any lesson could ever be more worth learning than that.

Contact Details: Cliffside Malibu is a luxury residential eating disorder treatment center located in Malibu, California. For further details about Cliffside’s treatment methods, amenities, or other general information about the eating disorder clinic, please call 1-800-501-1988 or visit our Web site at www.cliffsidemalibu.com.

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Prescription Drug Abuse Throughout Ontario – OxyContin(r) On The Chopping Block

This year the province of Ontario , Canada is leading an extensive investigation into the misuse and abuse of OxyContin. This is a particular pharmaceutical that can be paid for by Ontario ‘s public drug plan, unfortunately these prescriptions have tripled in the last five years. The Health Minister of Ontario wants to find out if the people getting the OxyContin really do need it. Drug Rehab Services has been on the receiving end of this, this particular drug rehab placement agency handles hundreds of calls from people in Ontario looking for help for OxyContin abuse. “Our calls have been on the rise and the most common question asked is how can I get help for Oxy abuse. Fortunately we have built a very large database of over 4000 different treatment centers across Canada , and do provide many different resources for Ontario residents.” Says Marcel Gemme, owner of Drug Rehab Services.

OxyContin is a slow release pain medicine that is mainly intended for people in extreme or chronic pain. The drug has a long history of being abused in ways of crushing the drug and snorting it, chewing the drug and mixing with alcohol, and even breaking the drug down and injecting it into your veins. OxyContin is given out so freely in Ontario , and it is not uncommon for abusers of OxyContin to be double doctoring; visiting multiple doctors complaining of symptoms of pain. Apparently there is no way of tracking whom has been prescribed, and in the last five years there was 450 deaths due to OxyContin overdose in Ontario.

This investigation has also led health regulators in the United States to make sure the producers of opiod painkillers strengthen their safety measures in order to prevent the misuse and abuse. The Food and Drug Administration in the United States is concerned about the rising numbers of overdoses and accidental deaths due to OxyContin, which has increased over the past ten years. The counsellors at Drug Rehab Services will continue to provide the best possible resources for those struggling with OxyContin abuse. If you or someone you know is struggling with an OxyContin addiction, call their toll free hotline at, 1-877-254-3348, or visit the website at, http://drug-rehab.ca/

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Chubby Celebs Make Obesity The “Norm”

Stick thin celebrities have long been held responsible for the pressure on ordinary people to lose weight – now it would seem the tables have turned and fat celebrities are being blamed for the rising obesity epidemic.

Experts say that tubby celebs such as “Gavin and Stacey’s” James Corden and Ruth Jones are making obesity more socially acceptable and “normal”.

The profile of “larger” celebs has considerably risen over the years, with names such as Dawn French, Jonny Vegas, Peter Kay and of course Fern Britton (who has now lost her weight), appearing on our screens.

A recent report revealed that 23 per cent of Brits are now classed as obese compared to just 11 per cent 10 years ago.

More than 2,000 people took part in a nationwide survey in which researchers found that 17 per cent of obese people refuse to consider taking action to lose weight, whether via surgery or extreme diet regimes.

Weight loss doesn’t have to revolve around fad diets and excruciating exercise regimes though. The Hospital Group, one of the country’s leading obesity and cosmetic surgery providers, offers a wide range of obesity treatments including gastric band and body shaping treatments including liposuction and tummy tuck.

Last year The Hospital Group saw a staggering 73 per cent increase in the number of enquires made regarding weight loss surgery, making them the largest obesity surgery provider in the UK.

Since The Hospital Group was established in 1992, it has grown from a small pharmaceutical company to one of the UK’s foremost weight loss surgery providers.

For further information of The Hospital Group’s range of weight loss procedures, surgery-seekers should visit the website www.thehospitalgroup.org or call our patient care coordinators on 0845 762 6727.

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Compare Health Insurance And Explore The World Of Alternative Medicine

Many emerging alternative therapies such as reiki, hypnosis and crystal healing are not yet available on the NHS despite their increasing popularity. Various studies have shown people really do believe in the power of complementary medicine – of course some are still sceptical – and it seems our health service is not keeping up with demand. Private health insurance policies do cover alternative therapies and if you can find the right policy, at the right price, by comparing different health insurance providers using online comparison sites, you will be able to explore the various options available to you.

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For those interested but with a lack of knowledge, alternative medicine can be an intriguing and perhaps confusing world – and while they may be keen to seek out some form of treatment for an ailment, they are unsure of what is the correct choice for them. It helps to know exactly what you will get when you put yourselves in the hands of an alternative therapist.

Compare Health Insurance And Alternative Therapies

Acupuncture involves placing needles into specific parts of the body, to treat the symptoms of pain as well as illness and disease. It originates from China and is perhaps the complementary therapy with the most evidence to suggest it works – research suggests it can be effective in providing relief from minor ailments such as headaches and backpain. It can also work well at relieving nausea caused by cancer treatment.

Reiki is used by practioners to channel a persons ‘life force’ by laying their hands on the patient to produce a healing effect. It used to treat mental and physical stress and devotees swear after a session they feel energised and back on form. As it is an ‘energy medicine’ some scepticism surrounds it’s effectiveness, with critics claiming patients are merely experiencing a placebo effect.

Shiatsu, meaning ‘finger pressure’ is a form of Japanese massage – the practioner uses massage to adjust the bodies physical structure and inner energies to ward off illness. It is used to treat conditions such as insomnia, headaches, anxiety, back pain and skin irritations and can improve the nervous and immune systems – again sceptics point to the placebo effect but shaitsu massage has been proven to be effective.

Hypnotherapy involves placing a person in a relaxed state, almost a light trance, and then addressing their fears, addictions and worries. It is gradually being recognised as effective in this area – when a patient is placed under hypnosis their heart rate and metabolism slows and their mind is in a more suggestive state.

Not all private health care providers will cover every single alternative therapy available – there is still a great deal of suspicion surrounding the more ‘out there’ ones. If you are interested in having access to alternative medicine compare health insurance providers to find the right insurance for your needs.

About Insurancewide

Insurancewide, also known as Insurancewide.com Services Limited, is an online insurance comparison website offering insurance comparison tools which allow users to search the market and procure the best insurance policies and quotes. Insurancewide was launched in August 1999 as the first insurance comparison website on the internet.

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Drug Rehab Services Helps Ontario OxyContin Abusers

OxyContin abuse is a very serious problem that does impact the residents of Ontario. Drug Rehab Services receives many calls from families looking for help who have a loved one slowly dying form an OxyContin addiction. “OxyContin has many other brand names,” comments Marcel, owner of Drug Rehab Services, “it is also know as Supeudol, Enodcet, Oxycocet, and the slang term ‘hillbilly heroin’.” OxyContin or Oxycodone has caused many overdoses and deaths in the province of Ontario. In 1990, the Chief Medical Examiner of Ontario, Dr. Barry Mclellan, asked forensic scientists to go back and review the death files of people who died from drug overdoses for the past five years in Ontario. The findings were quite shocking, between 1999 and 2003, there was a four to five fold increase in deaths where Oxycodone was detected in the blood stream.

Following a brief timeline; in 2000 the Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) reported a %400 increase in Oxycodone related deaths. In 2001, Oxycodone abuse was highly publicized all throughout North America. In 2003, 101 people died in Ontario with Oxycodone found in their blood stream. This was ten times more than one decade ago. 2004; the FDA strengthened warnings about Oxycodone and its many products, this was also followed by warnings issued by Perdu Pharma, the company that was marketing OxyContin. In 2005, a story reported on CTV about a young Ontario man named Kyle Blythe, whose doctor prescribed him OxyContin for tendonitis in his wrist. One hundred thousand dollars later, OxyContin destroyed his life, and took away his wife and home. Kyle then entered a legal methadone maintenance program to help get off of the OxyContin.

Drug Rehab Service has compiled a database of over 4000 different resources, and this includes resources for people looking for help in Ontario. If you are requiring help for an OxyContin addiction in Ontario, call the counsellors at Drug Rehab Services at, 1-877-254-3348, or visit their website at, http://drug-rehab.ca.

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Drug And Alcohol Treatment Transforming The World Of Rehabilitation

Sunset Malibu, an exclusive drug and alcohol treatment center on the California coast, has long been a transformational force in the field of treatment and recovery. Now, Sunset has redoubled its efforts in the fight against alcoholism. For clients and their families, those efforts can make all the difference in the world.

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Alcohol abuse is a devastating disease, one that strips its victims of their hope and joy dignity. The good news, though, is that targeted alcohol rehabilitation programs really can help patients rediscover themselves as they used to be—but only if those programs meet the unique individual needs of the individual clients.

Those considerations are at the heart of Sunset Malibu’s treatment philosophy. As a result, Sunset Malibu’s alcohol treatment programs change lives.

With its world-class caregivers and elegant accommodations, Sunset Malibu is an unparalleled recovery destination. The center has always catered to upscale clients f r o m every corner of the globe. Now Sunset is renewing its commitment to its core values, with the goal of delivering life-changing care to individuals who seek it.

At Sunset Malibu, no pursuit could ever be more fulfilling than that of becoming whole again.

“Alcoholism can destroy families and careers,” Sunset Malibu owner Richard Taite said. “Our foremost goal is to help clients develop the skills and strength they need to rebuild their world f r o m the ground up.”

When it comes to the best alcoholism treatment Los Angeles has to offer, that passion to create change is precisely what sets Sunset apart f r o m its competitors.

There are plenty of alcohol recovery facilities in Southern California. But many of them offer the same generic treatment programs to all of their clients. It’s as if what worked for one victim of alcoholism should work for them all. But this simply isn’t the case. To pretend otherwise can grossly jeopardize the healing process. Such results unforgivable and unnecessary.

“Our clients trust us with their lives,” Taite said. “It’s a humbling and inspiring responsibility, and we respond to it with the utmost dedication. Our treatment methods, along with education and counseling, reflect our commitment to every individual who walks through our doors.”

Alcohol abuse is a pernicious foe, but not an unconquerable one. Sunset Malibu is committed to helping alcoholism victims rediscover themselves as they used to be, and life as they used to know it. The center’s record of success speaks for itself.

Sunset’s residents really do heal f r o m the inside-out. For clients and their families, no outcome could ever possibly be more desirable.

Contact Details: Sunset Malibu is a luxury drug and alcohol treatment center located in Malibu, California. For further details about Sunset’s drug rehab facility, treatment strategies, accommodations, or other general facts, please call 1-800-332-9202 or visit the website at http://www.drugrehabsunsetmalibu.com.

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Luxury Drug Rehab Experts Help Addicts Find the Right Treatment

Upscale victims of addiction often seek professional treatment facilities capable of helping them achieve recovery without sacrificing the luxurious lifestyles to which they’re accustomed. Unfortunately, that search is often impeded by a lack of transparency in the treatment center community. That’s about to change.

LuxuryDrugRehab.com is pleased to announce a new referral service linking affluent addiction victims to the best treatment and recovery facilities on earth. The goal of LuxuryDrugRehab.com is to help those victims find the facility that’s exactly right for them. This is to ensure positive outcomes and lasting results in the healing process. To do that, the service provides clients with expert personal advice—combined with a thorough and accurate understanding of the treatment options available to them. That sort of enlightenment can often make all the difference in the world.

Rehabilitation is never easy. On the contrary, recovery is an arduous process. So —recovery patients need all the support they can get on the road to wellness. The best luxury drug rehab centers combine clinical excellence with elegant amenities and world-class service. This helps them achieve the goal of helping clients get better without suffering along the way. In the end, treatment can’t succeed on any terms other than those.

Frequently, that principle isn’t put into practice. Many rehab centers fall far short of the commitments they make to their clients.

While there are plenty of “luxury” treatment facilities in California, many fail to deliver the sort of cutting-edge care upon which all meaningful recovery must be based. Instead, they choose to devote their resources to superficial amenities — as if recovery could be achieved through physical comfort alone. When push comes to shove, a rehab center that focuses on elegance before expertise can’t possibly be expected to help its residents achieve any kind of lasting wellness.

Given what’s at stake in the fight against addiction, failure is simply unacceptable. And that, in a no uncertain terms, is precisely why LuxuryDrugRehab.com is so important to its clients and their families

It’s no secret that addiction is an awful disease. The good news is that successful luxury addiction treatment facilities can help clients rediscover life as they used to know it, and rediscover themselves as they used to be. LuxuryDrugRehab.com promises to change the lives of those individuals who trust their health to its professional counselors, by helping them distinguish elite treatment facilities from inferior institutions.

Under the circumstances, it’s hard to imagine that any service could ever be more important than that.

LuxuryDrugRehab.com is a referral service dedicated to connecting callers with the right long term luxury drug rehab center. To learn more about the service and luxury drug rehab programs, call 1-888-488-0088, or visit the website at luxurydrugrehab.com. Online visitors will find testimonials, staff profiles, and other valuable information about the rehabilitation experience.

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Mice May Hold Key To Parkinson’s Disease

Recently, scientists at the Weill Cornell Medical School were able to recreate the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease in mice, leading some to believe that a breakthrough in treating the ailment could be just around the corner.

According to a study in the journal Nature Neuroscience, the research involved creating an animal model of Parkinson’s in mice so that scientists can focus on preventing the progression of the disease rather than just on treating its symptoms.

“This research is a huge step for the Parkinson’s community,” says Kay Mixson Jenkins, author of Who Is Pee Dee? Explaining Parkinson’s Disease to a Child. “With efforts like these, Parkinson’s patients have hope that funding and time are going into meaningful steps towards an eventual cure.”

Ms. Jenkins, founder of the non-profit Parkinson’s in the Park, was diagnosed with the disease when she was just thirty-four. She wrote Who Is Pee Dee? for kids who may be asking, “What is Parkinson’s disease?” or, “What are Parkinson’s disease symptoms?”

The book follows a young boy named Colt as he tries to deal with his mother’s illness. It’s the kind of story Ms. Jenkins hopes will be made obsolete by the research being done with mice at Weill Cornell.

“I hope that researchers continue to get funding both private and public,” says Ms. Jenkins, whose book includes a discussion of some of the following symptoms:
• The constant fatigue created by the struggle to control body movement.
• The loss of coordination when doing even simple tasks
• The anger and resentment that can come from feeling overwhelmed

For more information, contact the author directly via kmj@ParkinsonsInThePark.org.

(Who Is Pee Dee? Explaining Parkinson’s Disease to a Child by Kay Mixson Jenkins; illustrated by Richard Morgan; ISBN: 978-0-9819129-0-5; $12.95; 33 pages; 8” x 8”; hardcover; UCB, Inc.)

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