Obamacare Could Overwhelm Addiction Services

Obamacare could overwhelm addiction services

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With money for treatment limited, slots in rehabilitation centers and hospitals are scarce. In Minnesota, which has one of the higher substance abuse rates in the nation — 11.6 percent of the population — there are slightly more than 3,900 inpatient …
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Rehab clinic to open in summer

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Both are the properties of Fairbanks Hospital Inc., a nonprofit treatment center in Indianapolis providing family-based recovery programs for men, women and adolescents adhering to the 12-step Alcoholics Anonymous program. Its services include …
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Md. official says state prepared to help addicts

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The department also expanded a benefit package of the Primary Adult Care program to include outpatient substance abuse treatment. It also improved the ability of enrollees to self-refer for services. The department paid for the expansion by annually …
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Using drugs to cure the disease of drug addiction

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… the answer to this drug scourge could be more, albeit different, drugs. There is a not insignificant part of the population that finds it prohibitively counter-intuitive to treat substance abuse with more substances, said Orman Hall, director of …
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