Letter: More State Funding Needed to Treat Addiction

Published January 21, 2014

Letter: More State Funding Needed to Treat Addiction

Filed under: drug addiction treatment

There is a public health crisis in the United States that is largely ignored by the media. In New York State, drug overdose deaths rose 169 percent between 1979 and 2010. Overdose deaths top motor vehicle accident mortalities today. Some drug …
Read more on Philipstown.info

Treating addiction cheaper than policing it

Filed under: drug addiction treatment

It takes courage and grace to say “we have a problem” and we need help. I wish there was an emergency disaster declaration for counties which suffer under this scourge. We can continue to try to look the other way and blame drug addicts as just a …
Read more on Times-Standard