Oregon's State-Funded Addiction Treatment Pays Off
"There's absolutely solid, irrefutable evidence that there is a savings—always—in funding addiction treatment and prevention," says Karen Wheeler, addiction programs administrator for the Oregon Health Authority. "You pay one way or the other." With …
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Addicts overwhelm Kentucky's drug treatment options
Only 40 of Kentucky's 301 treatment and recovery sites offer 24-hour residential care, which experts say may be the only hope for the most severely addicted. And those 40 centers are concentrated in just 19 of the state's 120 counties, mostly in urban …
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