• is addiction a disease

    From CBC Radio: Is Addiction a Disease?

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    Many treatment centers and addiction professionals have championed the idea of addiction as a disease rather than a moral failing. And with more people than [...]

  • Pyramid Healthcare Announces Reclamere Partnership

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    Pyramid Healthcare’s IT department is proud to announce a partnership with data security specialists Reclamere. In an effort to increase data security and protect confidential [...]

  • NPR Talks to Opioid Addict Finding Treatment

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    NPR’s podcast Embedded spoke recently with a former nurse named Joy who found herself addicted to an opioid called Opana. Click here to listen. This [...]

  • Pyramid Healthcare Announces Third Acquisition In 2016

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    Pyramid Healthcare announced today its acquisition of Quest Services, Inc., a central Pennsylvania provider of behavioral healthcare services. Founded in 2001, Quest offers outpatient and [...]

  • Pyramid Healthcare Acquires Mazzitti & Sullivan

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    Pyramid Healthcare announced today its acquisition of Mazzitti & Sullivan, a central Pennsylvania provider of outpatient behavioral health services and employee assistance programs (EAP). Mazzitti [...]

  • Pyramid Healthcare Acquires Real Recovery

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    Pyramid Healthcare announced today its acquisition of Real Recovery, a sober home for young men located in Asheville, North Carolina. The acquisition of Real Recovery [...]

  • C.D.C. Issues Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids

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    In response to the growing opioid epidemic in the United States, the C.D.C. announced yesterday recommended guidelines for primary care doctors who give their [...]

  • Anti-Overdose Drug Available in Kroger Stores

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    Grocery store chain Kroger made news this week with its announcement of plans to begin selling anti-overdose drug Naloxone (also called Narcan) at store pharmacies. [...]

  • 2015 “Take a Cab…We’ll Pay The Tab!” Campaign A Success

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    Pyramid Healthcare, Blair County Drug & Alcohol Partnerships, and the law offices of Edgar Snyder & Associates provided 59 free rides home in Blair County [...]

  • Marijuana Decriminalization Approved by Pittsburgh City Council

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    The City of Pittsburgh voted Monday, December 21, 2015 to implement legislation that would reduce the possession of less than 30 grams (approximately one ounce) [...]

  • Pharmacists Touted as Last Line of Defense Against Opioid Addiction

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    DEA top officials and Pennsylvania pharmacists met in Pittsburgh recently to address prescription opioid abuse in relation to heroin use and overdose deaths. A collaborative [...]

  • Take a Cab…We’ll Pay the Tab!

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    Pyramid Healthcare, Blair Drug & Alcohol Partnerships, the law offices of Edgar Snyder & Associates, and WTAJ-TV 10 are pleased to announce the return of their [...]

  • The National Night of Conversation: Use family dinner as a gateway to discuss drugs & alcohol

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    Image: www.facebook.com/drugsoverdinner  On November 19, 2015, Dr. Oz, the cardiothoracic surgeon who hosts “The Dr. Oz Show,” and national organization Drugs Over Dinner [...]

  • Celebrate National Recovery Month!

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    September is National Recovery Month! Throughout the month of September, national organizations like the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the National [...]

  • Pyramid Healthcare Awarded Three-Year CARF Accreditation

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    CARF International announced that Pyramid Healthcare, Inc. and its drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs have been accredited for a period of three years. Previously accredited [...]

  • Opioids Potential Cause Behind Increase in Overdose Deaths in U.S.

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    A recent report published by the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation revealed that drug overdoses cause more deaths in [...]