Affordable Care Act Addresses Mental Health Issues

Affordable Care Act addresses mental health issues

Filed under: Substance Abuse Treatment

New health exchanges will be required to cover mental health care and substance abuse treatment, says Rachel Garfield, senior researcher at the Kaiser Family Foundation. The new law will cover more people in other ways, Garfield says. STORY: Newtown …
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Reauthorizing VAWA in current form could be grave mistake

Filed under: Substance Abuse Treatment

Abuse-reduction efforts should emphasize substance abuse treatment, counseling, and the like, with aggressive arrest and prosecution being essential but back-up strategies. In short, we need more counseling and less incarceration. So before the Senate …
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30000 and still planting

Filed under: Substance Abuse Treatment

Show caption Advocate staff photo by RICHARD ALAN HANNONClients of Cenikor, a long-term substance abuse treatment center in Baton Rouge, mulch 101 trees, most of them live oaks, in a green space in the middle of the Interstate 10/12 split.
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