Twitter Chat: The Fix Tackles Drug Policy in America
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The Fix, an excellent (in my opinion) website about addiction and recovery that often tackles celebrity substance abuse issues is teaming up with the national nonprofit addiction treatment organization Phoenix House later this afternoon to talk about …
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Disparities Seen in Addiction Treatment
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“Add to these results a host of other studies that identify mental health care disparities and racial/ethnic minorities' higher likelihood of being incarcerated for drug abuse-related offenses, and we begin to see a picture of a substance abuse …
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OUR VIEW: Charting Fall River's course
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Fall River's real and perceived crime problems cannot be addressed without recognizing its direct and indirect ties to drug addiction. To this end, Flanagan properly called for a mix of both heightened enforcement and treatment of addicts. Flanagan had …
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Outlook brighter, mental health advocates say
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O'Malley's budget includes $ 5.1 million in new money for substance abuse treatment and a 2.5 percent increase in rate reimbursement for community providers of mental health services. Some of that money has come from a 2011 increase in the alcohol tax.
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