Treatment expansion.Treatment Expansion: Hythiam Inc., a health care services management company, is expanding in South Florida Florida, state, United States Florida (flôr`ĭdə, flŏr`–), state in the extreme SE United States. A long, low peninsula between the Atlantic Ocean (E) and the Gulf of Mexico (W), Florida is bordered by Georgia and . The company has licensed its Prometa medical approach for treating dependence on alcohol, methamphetamines, and cocaine cocaine (kōkān`, kō`kān), alkaloid drug derived from the leaves of the coca shrub. A commonly abused illegal drug, cocaine has limited medical uses, most often in surgical applications that take advantage of the fact that, in to the Fort Lauderdale-based Challenges treatment center. The center treats more than 2,000 patients a year in high end residential facilities and through outpatient outpatient /out·pa·tient/ (-pa-shent) a patient who comes to the hospital, clinic, or dispensary for diagnosis and/or treatment but does not occupy a bed. out·pa·tient n. care. |
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