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- n a patient who is residing in the hospital where he is being treated
- Since Carnes opened the first inpatient sex-addiction treatment program in 1985, his method has been used with more than 1,500 patients.
- Odyssey House, which was founded to treat younger addicts, now has a separate division, with both inpatient and outpatient facilities, to deal specifically with older users.
- Even if health-care plans stopped paying hospitals for unnecessary inpatient stays, others says, that kind of abuse still won't end if the plans don't also stop paying patients .