Inside a New York Drug Clinic, Allegations of Kickbacks and Shoddy Care

Inside a New York Drug Clinic, Allegations of Kickbacks and Shoddy Care

Filed under: drug addiction treatments

Her story shows how drug treatment clinics and landlords traffic in indigent alcoholics and addicts, all at taxpayer expense. Lillian Imbert outside New York Service Network, the outpatient drug treatment clinic in Brooklyn, N.Y., where she says she …
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Women and Prescription Drugs: The Gender Gap Tightens

Filed under: drug addiction treatments

Health care providers have a responsibility to prescribe painkillers appropriately, to educate patients about the risks and benefits of each treatment option, and to monitor patients for substance abuse and mental health issues. Patients have a …
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Affordable Care Act Could Remove Drug Rehab Cost Barriers

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The National Institute on Drug Abuse says of the 24 million Americans needing treatment for substance addiction, only 2.6 million are getting it. But with the Affordable Care Act, it's estimated that 40 million more Americans would be able to afford …
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