Opinion: Consider Foley facility for treating heroin addicts
Individuals committing serious crimes must be held accountable, but the current heroin epidemic underscores the need for immediate action by Nassau and Suffolk counties to create more long-term drug treatment options and rehabilitative alternatives to … Read more on NorthShoreOfLongIsland.com

Could Drug-Replacement Therapy Have Saved Philip Seymour…
Which is why long-term opiate-replacement therapy—that is, taking a small amount of an opiate under the supervision of a doctor indefinitely—may be an answer for the most intractable addict or for the recently relapsed addict. For many opiate addicts … Read more on The New Republic

Should Drug Treatment Aim to End Use or Reduce Harm?
We re-analyzed an experimental jobs program that randomly assigned a basic low-wage work opportunity to long-term unemployed people as they left drug treatment. In some ways, the program worked beautifully. The job treatment group had significantly … Read more on Pacific Standard

York VA launches residential mental health rehab program
The program will be supplemented with long-term outreach programs, compensated work therapy, supported therapy programs and various recreation therapy programs already established at the local campus. TVHS is a tertiary integrated healthcare system … Read more on The Daily News Journal