Times are tough, but Narconon and other drug treatment centers know that it is costly to trim the budget by deleting the lines that say rehab.   By suddenly doing away with drug treatment, states like Maine are going to have a painful budget in a few years or a big problem.  Addicts who attend effective drug treatment are likely to return to society as productive citizens and add their energy to the bottom line.

Those who aren’t treated are likely to cost the state plenty in terms of medical and incarceration costs, to say nothing of the lives that will be lost.  We agree – times are tough, but there must be some other things to cut in the budget.  Unfortunately, drug addiction doesn’t go away or get better with time.  Here is the article.

“Budget cuts in Maine may soon force the closure of 10 out of 13 residential treatment centers, the Maine Public Broadcasting Network reported March 9.

Maine governor Paul Le Page is proposing to cut $5.6 million from the state’s substance abuse treatment programs. Most treatment providers say the cuts will be so deep that they will have to stop operating.

“It’s the classic pennywise-pound foolish, because we treat people at less than half the cost of the corrections community,” said Roger Prince of Serenity House, a substance abuse treatment program that is over 40 years old.

“So what do we want to do? Do we want to close this place down and send [our clients] back to jail or to the emergency room? It makes no sense to me,” he said.

According to a March 9 story in the Bangor Daily News, 40 percent of the Wellspring treatment program’s budget, or over $500,000, will vanish with the cuts. “There is no way I can make that up from other sources,” said Pat Kimball, the agency’s executive director.

“People who need residential care are the most chronically ill people in the state,” she said. “If we close our doors today, over half our clients would return to jail, one-third would be homeless and only 13 percent would be able to live with family or friends.”

The state cuts, combined with federal funds that require state match and federal grants set to expire, would slash the budget for Maine’s Office of Substance Abuse from $37 million to $24 million.

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Narconon will always promote treatment as the primary solution.  There really isn’t any other solution, except to stop addiction in the first place with effective prevention.

Where treatment is needed, Narconon drug rehab is the best solution.

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