Funds Boost to Allow Broader Treatment for Eating Disorders

Funds boost to allow broader treatment for eating disorders

Filed under: state funded drug rehab

Last month Fairfax Media revealed young adults who needed hospital treatment for eating disorders could be left waiting up to two years for access to one of only two beds available across the state. Clinicians said there was so little publicly funded …
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Washington sees rise in heroin usage

Filed under: state funded drug rehab

Across the state, first-time admissions to publicly funded addiction-treatment programs where heroin was the primary drug leapt from 590 in 2003 to 8,593 in 2012. Last year, heroin users from age 18 to 29, the majority from outside the Seattle metro …
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