Making The Addiction Treatment System Work – A Challenge For Policy, Financing & Practice

Addiction isn’t just an issue for the health care field. The headlines in just the past few weeks have popped off the page – How Aggressive Tactics By The Makers Of OxyContin Helped Create A Crisis, Mayor Seeking To Sue Maker Of OxyContin Over Opioid Epidemic, and Overdoses Force Coroner To Use Funeral Home To Store Bodies.

The question is: What’s the best way to tackle the situation? In my article last week, How Much Residential Addiction Treatment Capacity Do We Need?, I asked about the rush to build residential addiction treatment beds. I’m not dismissing the need . . .