Addiction Medicine
Treating Addiction Cuts Health Care Costs - 'Let's Put Our Money Where the Savings Are' Says Howard Meitiner, President and CEO of Phoenix House
Published in State and Local Health Law Weekly, October 15th, 2009
When it comes to drug and alcohol abuse, the allocation of federal and state health care dollars is just plain backward, asserts Howard Meitiner, President and CEO of Phoenix House, the nation's leading non-profit alcohol and drug abuse treatment and prevention agency. In a thought-provoking opinion piece on the Phoenix House blog, Rising Above Addiction, Mr. Meitiner insists that re-appropriating funds toward treating addiction -- rather than treating the expensive symptoms and consequences of addiction -- would save not only lives, but vast amounts of money.
"The national debate on health care reform has overlooked an area of vast potential savings -- the treatment of...
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