Lowering the Deadly Cost of Drug Abuse
As even quaint New England towns deal with desperate residents chasing their next hit of heroin, pain killers or other hard drugs, and with overdose deaths increasing, officials trying to stem drug abuse have begun to focus more on treatment, rather …
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New Ebook on Substance Abuse Across the Lifespan: A Biopsychosocial …
Although the costs of cancer and diabetes are at record-breaking numbers, $ 157 billion dollars and $ 131.7 billion dollars respectively, the cost of substance abuse far surpasses both diseases combined at about $ 600 billion dollars annually …
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Does Obamacare Hinder or Help Addiction Treatment?
Do these expansions create a pool of patients that the substance abuse field is unprepared to accommodate? Do the costs of substance abuse treatment become an additional burden to the taxpayer? Are the increase costs of substance abuse treatment …
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Substance Abuse Treatment for Non Violent Drug Offenders — How do we motivate referrals to enter and comply with treatment? What happens when they don’t comply? Do all drug offenders need drug treatment?

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