Community Coalition seeks input via online survey
Sea Mar offers mental health and substance abuse treatment for adults at their Behavioral Health Services clinic, medical and dental care services at their community health center, and substance abuse treatment oriented towards youth at their youth … Read more on Monroe Monitor

'By the time it's approved, the client's gone': Insurance, system failures …
As McKay's first pangs of withdrawal kicked in – vomiting, diarrhea, shaking and cold sweats – his family was told that detoxification centers across the county were full. A hospital in Pittsburgh turned McKay away because it didn't consider opioid … Read more on PennLive.com

Survey shows high incidence of mental illness, trauma among R.I.'s homeless
The survey reinforces what advocates have long argued: the homeless spend a disproportionate amount of time in costly emergency rooms, jails, hospitals and detox centers. According to the coalition, 545 of those surveyed visited an emergency room 3,815 … Read more on The Providence Journal

Ruben Rosario: She died alone and homeless, but she will not be forgotten
Indeed, in order to secure a one-room apartment at the facility, residents must have 20 or more admissions to detox centers in the past three years, two or more attempts at chemical dependency treatment and have been homeless for most of the past five … Read more on TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press