Kansas Health Watch #409
Kansas Health Watch #409 – This month Kansas Health Watch examines the problem of drug and alcohol abuse in Kansas. The state currently spends over 3 million dollars a year dealing …
NC Senate budget plan heavy on Medicaid spending
Filed under: state funded drug rehab
The proposal for state government spending through mid-2015 sets aside $ 1.2 billion over those two years for additional costs of Medicaid, the federal-state health insurance plan for 1.5 million poor and disabled North Carolina residents. The state …
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Summit focuses on ideas to help inmates reintegrate, avoid relapse
Filed under: state funded drug rehab
Approximately 9,500 inmates are held in the state's prisons – among them nonviolent drug offenders who panelists say would benefit from substance abuse rehabilitation programs if they were implemented within jail and prison walls. “We need … In …
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Call for next budget to lift drug rehab funding
Filed under: state funded drug rehab
The Western Region Alcohol and Drug Centre says this week's state budget did not do enough to get people with substance abuse problems into treatment. The centre's director, Geoff Soma, says the sector needs a 20 per cent funding boost in next year's …
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