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Dr. Mel Pohl Featured in a Special Report on BLOW Energy Drink Powder

Dr. Mel Pohl, Medical Director of Las Vegas Recovery Center (LVRC) was featured in a special report on the powdered energy drink 'BLOW' on Channel 13 Action News. It is an energy drink that resembles an illegal drug and many experts and parents feel this shock marketing is going too far.

View the video at KTNV.com

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Dr. Mel Pohl Featured in a Special Report on Prescription Drug Abuse

Dr. Mel Pohl, Medical Director of Las Vegas Recovery Center (LVRC) was featured in a special report on celebrity and prescription drug abuse on Channel 8 Las Vegas Now News. All of the prescription drugs found in Heath Ledger's system point to a wide spread problem, even here in Las Vegas. The abused drug of choice is coming from a doctor more and more.

Dr. Pohl says some prescription drug addictions start in the Doctor's office, but the latest trends with kids are even scarier. "In 18 to 25-year-olds prescription drug abuse is the number one problem," said Pohl. "I think parents are in denial and they need to wake up. They need to wake up to the fact that the source of the drugs is not an external dealer. It's their medicine cabinet."

View the story at LasVegasNow.com

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Dr. Mel Pohl Attends White House Meeting on Alarming Prescription Drug Abuse Rates and Reduction Efforts

Dr. Mel Pohl, Medical Director of Las Vegas Recovery Center (LVRC) was invited to meet with Deputy Director Scott Burns and key members of his staff from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) on Tuesday, December 11. This meeting was part of an ONDCP initiative focused on discussing the marked and steady increase of prescription drug abuse and the prevention and treatment needed to address these national trends, especially with adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17.
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LVRC and Medical Director Dr. Mel Pohl in Story on Prescription Drug Abuse

A frightening trend in the national spotlight is also a growing problem in Las Vegas. More and more young people are abusing prescription drugs -- some with deadly consequences. The Partnership for a Drug Free America says one in five teens admits to abusing prescriptions. And local officials say the rise in prescription abuse is actually exceeding street drug abuse.
View Story at KLAS-8

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LVRC's Medical Director Featured in Television Interview

Dr. Mel Pohl was featured on a two-part series on KLAS 8 News about the dangers of Methadone.
[part 1] - [part 2]

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LVRC's Medical Director on KVBC 3

Las Vegas Recovery Center Medical Director Dr. Mel Pohl was featured in a story on KVBC 3 about Hydrocodone.
View the story at KVBC Channel 3.

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Las Vegas Recovery Center Staff Speaking at Counseling Skills Conference

Several distinguished members of the Las Vegas Recovery Center Staff will be speaking at the 13th Annual Counseling Skills Conference, to be held September 27-29, 2007 at the Las Vegas Hilton in Las Vegas, NV. Denise D. Crosson RN, PhD (Vice President of Clinical Programs), Jim Tracy, DDS, CADC (Director of National Outreach), and Mel Pohl MD, FASAM (Medical Director) will be presenting Outcome Data in an Opiate-free Integrated Chronic Pain & Addiction Treatment Program—Evaluation of First Year.

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First Lady, Dawn Gibbons, to tour Las Vegas Recovery Center

We are pleased to announce that First Lady Dawn Gibbons is scheduled to tour Las Vegas Recovery Center (LVRC), a Central Recovery Treatment (CRT) company on Friday, July 13, 2007 at 12:30 p.m.

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Las Vegas Recovery Center Launches New Family Program

Las Vegas Recovery Center is launching Rebuilding Relations: A Family Program of Recovery on September 8, 2006.

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