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New Hazelden Study Finds 79% think War on Drugs a Failure

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

New Hazelden Survey Finds Strong Support for Treatment, Recovery February 6, 2009 News Feature, Join Together by Bob Curley Advocates who say addiction should be treated as a public-health issue and not a criminal problem have broad public support, according to the results of a new survey from Hazelden that also found that about one in three families include members with addiction problems. Public support alone, however, will not be sufficient to sustain recent victories like addiction parity legislation or to meet the economic and policy challenges now facing the addiction field, said William Cope Moyers, executive director of Hazelden's Center for Public Advocacy, which conducted the survey. (Survey at this URL: http://www.hazelden.org/web/public/pr090209healthinsurance...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 14, 2009 (boomark / email).