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Methadone treatment raises questions about profit motive, patient care
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Methadone treatment is seen by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and others as an intervention that helps addicts get their lives back. One advocate who's taken a daily dose of the drug for more than 40 years says methadone saved her life.
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Millions Eligible For Addiction Treatment As Medicaid Expands; Some Worry …
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Some 23 million Americans today suffer from clinical-level addiction to drugs and alcohol but only 10 percent receive treatment. Aside from the lingering social stigma of behavioral health treatment, one-quarter of addicts lack health insurance …
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Why We Should Treat, Not Blame Addicts Struggling to Get 'Clean'
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It has been more than 40 years since Richard Nixon called for a "war on drugs," and yet our prevention and treatment efforts have largely failed to address the chronic illness of substance addiction that afflicts one in 12 Americans and affects …
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