DSHS Chief: Legislature to blame for lack of drug treatment funding
With the shift to the Affordable Care Act, thousands of patients getting treatment for addiction to heroin, meth, cocaine, alcohol and other drugs under a combination of federal and state payments have been switched to Medicaid. Medicaid rates are far …
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Most alcohol-linked deaths occur among working-age adults, CDC says
This is likely because poverty drives addiction, said Janina Kean, president and CEO of High Watch Recovery Center, a drug-rehab facility in Kent, Conn. "There's more exposure to drugs and alcohol in the impoverished way that minorities in our country …
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In taking on its heroin crisis, Vermont shoots itself in the foot
Serenity House in central Vermont is an inpatient rehab center that treats around 400 recovering addicts a year. America Tonight …. The state's 2013 fiscal year budget for its overall Drug and Alcohol Abuse Treatment program is $ 29 million. Last …
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