Investing in addiction treatment is good policy
Advocates for expanding addiction treatment have asked the president and Congress to increase funding for the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant Program. After years of budget cuts, this essential program has received additional …
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Shumlin promotes treatment at DC drug forum
He highlighted some of the steps he's taking in Vermont, including investments in addiction treatment programs and third-party assessors who determine if treatment would be more effective than incarceration in individual cases. "That's what we've got …
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Western Massachusetts' opioid addiction crisis addressed in state Senate …
Roose called for a number of ways to address the crisis, including the expansion of methadone and other proven treatment programs, approaches to ease the stigma of addiction and its treatments, “innovative collaboration” with social services and …
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