Obamacare helps keep parolees in treatment
1, Multnomah County paid about 75 percent of the cost of addiction treatment for the county's probationers and parolees, many of whom were required to seek treatment as a condition of their release. But with the Affordable Care Act's expansion of … Read more on Portland Tribune

Drug, alcohol addiction rehab in the US is big business
This new report examines the nature of the business, types of rehab, reasons for the renewed growth of addiction rehab services since the Great Recession, national receipts/growth from 1983-2013, 2014 and 2018 forecasts, average facility revenues … Read more on News-Medical.net

Marijuana on campus: Looking at Washington's marijuana culture
If anyone had asked Karly Jo Harris about marijuana three years ago, she would have said, “nope, nope, nope, it's bad and I don't want to talk about it.” But now, with the legalization of marijuana in Washington and pot shops cropping up around the … Read more on Daily Record-News