Doreen Virtue discusses how she earned her University Degrees – If you dream of returning to college, do it! as Doreen Virtue discusses in this inspiring video. Doreen talks about how, as a single mother of two sons, she returned to college while working full-time as a secretary. She shows the camera her diplomas from Chapman University (a leading accredited univeristy where she earned BA and MA degrees in Psychology in the 1980’s) and California Coast University (where she earned a Ph.D. in Psychology in the early 1990’s when it was an accredited university). Doreen discusses how she volunteered as a counselor at the Care Unit and was later hired full-time, and then how she worked for Dr. John Beck, MD (psychiatrist) as an eating disorder therapist, and later worked as administrators at Teen Alcohol and Drug Abuse Clinic in Lancaster, California; Cumberland Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, where she opened an all-women’s psychiatric unit called “Woman Kind” and Woodside Women’s Hospital in Woodside, California. She also discusses how she got published.

 

Go to the real source to help fight drug abuse

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Another clinic has increased its size from 150 to 200. Most of these treatment programs have waiting lists, not surprising since the state Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services reports a 150 percent increase in people from 18 to 35 seeking …
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Steppingstone substance abuse program to work with male offenders

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Two years ago, Steppingstone opened an outpatient clinic to help people suffering from substance abuse and mental health issues. A year ago, the organization started an alcohol education program for drivers. On Oct. 1, it will begin working with male …
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Tackling prescription drug abuse in Indiana

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Those are valid concerns, yet we need to alert parents of a parallel drug problem that also has taken root in Indiana and plagues Hoosier families: abuse of drugs that are legal with a prescription. Unfortunately our state is caught up in a national …
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