Unforeseen Benefits: Addiction Treatment Reduces Health Care Costs
View the report released July 17 at the "Healing Mind and Body: Behavioral Health and Reform," briefing hosted by the"Alliance for Health Reform and co-sponsored by " Closing the Addiction Treatment Gap Initiative (CATG) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The report demonstrates that treating Americans who are addicted to alcohol and drugs will lead to substantial health care savings totaling billions of dollars over a decade. The report, developed by CATG, cites peer-reviewed...
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FLOWERING OF HOPE
A new addiction-treatment center in Long Branch is named in memory of one member of a family hard hit over generations by substance abuse.
LONG BRANCH — Shelby Sickles keeps the family history, a duty she took when no one else wanted it, and one she did not immediately embrace.
Sickles, of Wall, is a recent author of the Sickles' story. No Web site or computer program helped her draw illustrated family trees or compose a multi-media music treatment of family vacations.
"It has brought me great peace to put together the missing pieces of this story which as a family has never been discussed," said Sickles,...
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