Word: treatment
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...True, treatment programs are expanding. Narcotics Anonymous, a self-help group modeled on Alcoholics Anonymous, had only four members in Dade County, which encompasses Miami, in 1979; today up to 80 people meet nightly in each of 44 groups throughout the county. Private hospital programs have grown so fast in the 1980s that some experts guess they have become a $3 billion-to-$4 billion-a-year business. But their cost, often $300 to $500 per bed per day, puts them beyond the reach of the innumerable addicts who do not have employers or insurance companies willing to pay. Clinics...
...Treatment at best is a long, complex and frequently frustrating process. There are disputes about the best methods. For example, some programs use chemicals in the first stage to ease the crash of a cocaine addict coming down and stimulate the production of natural brain chemicals depleted by the drug. Managers of other programs insist the goal should be to get abusers off % dependence on any kind of chemical right away...
Whatever the type of treatment they receive, recovering addicts need follow-up care and counseling, sometimes for as long as five years, to make sure they stay clean. A major treatment problem is to convince an addict that one resumption of drug use does not mean he will never shake his habit. Many recovering addicts do not stay in touch with follow-up programs, so no one knows whether or how long they stay off drugs. Thus the success of treatment programs is hard to measure. Though some claim success rates as high as 80%, Dr. Sidney Cohen, professor...
...Administration has nearly doubled its drug-enforcement budget, from $853 million in 1982 to $1.5 billion this year, but has neglected efforts to reduce the demand for drugs. The federal budget for drug treatment and prevention has actually declined, from $200 million in 1982 to $126 million this year. Somewhat belatedly Reagan seems to have realized that the flow of drugs will abate only when the U.S. curbs its persistent craving. What since 1984 had been the personal cause of First Lady Nancy Reagan -- getting young people to "Just Say No" to drugs -- finally became a top item...
...raising the question of Gramm-Rudman," says Democratic Congressman Charles Rangel of Harlem. This week the House will take up a $2 billion-to-$3 billion antidrug package that will fund every weapon in the war on drugs, from more radar balloons for the border patrol to more drug-treatment centers in the ghetto...