Year in Review: Georgia's Top Stories From 2012

Year in review: Georgia's top stories from 2012

Filed under: inpatient drug rehab

Her hands, left leg and right foot were amputated at a hospital in Augusta, and she spent two months in a rehabilitation center in Atlanta learning to move and care for herself again. Once the surgeries were over and she … The high court gave itself …
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Newport Beach man pardoned for crimes, praised for charity work

Filed under: inpatient drug rehab

"He is especially fond of children's charities and any organization which has focus on substance-abuse rehabilitation." Ex-convicts can apply for a pardon after 10 years of being on parole or probation if they have demonstrated exemplary behavior after …
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After beating, Poppy still on mend

Filed under: inpatient drug rehab

For weeks, he was hospitalized at Albany Medical Center and St. Peter's hospitals before being transferred to Timberlyn Heights, a skilled nursing and rehabilitation center run by Kindred Healthcare in Great Barrington, Mass. He had to use a wheelchair …
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Chief Justice: Alternatives to prison for substance abusers welcomed

Filed under: inpatient drug rehab

The chief justice also suggested that such a facility coming on stream in the near future ties in aptly with the push towards having a Drug Treatment Court set up as well on the island. “As head of the judiciary, this will fall under my jurisdiction …
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