Lawmakers Push for Drug Abuse Treatment, Recovery Funding

Published March 18, 2014

Lawmakers push for drug abuse treatment, recovery funding
"It took a long time to get in to a treatment facility and start my journey in to recovery." Her detox began at 19. She's 22 now. Lawmakers say they've heard the same thing. "I get phone calls just about on a daily basis from parents, from students …
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Rise in heroin use leads to more patients at treatment centers
In 2013, 43 percent of the Wilmington Treatment Center's 2,421 patients were treated for opiate addiction. Bernard Gottschalk, medical director of Wilmington Treatment Center, said opiate addicts have an 85 percent relapse rate. But there is hope, said …
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