A gaping hole in addiction treatment

A gaping hole in addiction treatment
TURNING PEOPLE AWAY. Under the decades-old federal restriction, drug treatment centers with more than 16 beds can't bill Medicaid for residential services provided to low-income adults. The measure was designed to prevent Medicaid funding from going …
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Heroin 'filled the hole': For kid from suburbs, pot was first stop on road to …
Though his mother tried different approaches — punishment, lectures, praise when he entered rehab — nothing stuck. About a month after his release from a court-ordered, 8½-month residential treatment program, Lewis, then 17, reverted to his old ways.
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Following veteran's overdose death, report finds problems at Miami VA drug …
Staff members were frequently absent or in a back room instead of monitoring patients in the drug abuse rehabilitation unit on the fifth floor of the Miami VA Medical Center. Patients in the program were allowed to sign out of the Miami facility …
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