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Addiction Medicine
CASA* Evaluation of Welfare Demonstration Program in New Jersey Finds Effective Approach to Addiction Recovery and Employment
February 13th, 2009
A new approach to helping drug-addicted women on welfare that treats substance abuse and addiction as a chronic disease promises better outcomes of sobriety and employment than current approaches that focus on employment first, according to CASASARD(SM): Intensive Case Management for Substance-Dependent Women Receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, a new White Paper by The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University. CASASARD(SM)(1), an ongoing welfare demonstration program for drug-addicted mothers conducted in Essex (including Newark) and Atlantic (including Atlantic City) Counties, New Jersey, was designed to get women...
Source: Health Business Week (2009-02-13)
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