Drug treatment programs would take hit if Illinois income tax increase expires
Recovery Resources Interim Executive Director Rick Goughnour says as the need for drug and alcohol treatment increases, the state money they receive is going down. "Our current budget we receive approximately 65 percent from state funding and we have …
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How to Fix Rehab: Expert Who Lost Son to Addiction Has a Plan
That's even worse than what another nonprofit found a decade ago, when it conducted a national study of 144 “highly regarded” teen treatment programs. Each program in that study—conducted by Mathea Falco's Drug Strategies, a DC-based nonprofit that …
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Bill to help improve drug and alcohol treatment for inmates signed into law
The new law (A-2295) would ensure that incarcerated individuals who participate in and complete drug treatment programs that meet or substantially meet requirements for licensure as residential programs are not denied eligibility for general public …
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