Heroin addicts face barriers to treatment
"If the treatment program calls you up and says, 'Your loved one is half-treated, we'd like to keep him for another two weeks,' you take out a mortgage on your house and you cover it." Elizabeth Thompson's parents did just that to pay for her treatment …
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Judge, DA allow robber to try for treatment program
Intermediate Punishment is a two-year program of incarceration, treatment and counseling for low-level offenders with substance abuse problems. “The courts in Mercer County look fondly in the SIP program,” said Mercer County Common Pleas Court Judge …
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