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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Runwell Awards 12 Grants To Addiction Treatment Centers In Its First Year
The foundation, a non-profit organization that funds addiction treatment centers and programs, awarded a total of $ 92,500 in grants in 2012. Runwell founder and internationally-known ultra runner Linda Quirk said she is excited by the foundation's …
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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 …
Read more on TheFix.com

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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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 …
Read more on TheFix.com

UAMS Cites Success in Methamphetamine Addiction Treatment
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock is celebrating early success in a treatment program for methamphetamine addiction. In its work with InterveXion Therapeutics LLC, UAMS and its partner have successfully completed …
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