Drug Treatment Works, Illinois Advocates Say

Drug Treatment Works, Illinois Advocates Say – (Springfield, IL) –The estimated number of Illinois residents waiting for alcohol and drug abuse assessment and treatment at state-financed facilities in 2008 rose 17 percent in, according to a report released at a press conference in Springfield, IL on May 1, 2008. The report by the Survey Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago surveyed 106 Illinois community treatment providers in December 2007 and revealed 7541 people were waiting for some form of treatment, up from 6467 in March 2007. State Senator Jeff Schoenberg (D-Evanston) is sponsoring legislation, SB 2886, to boost prevention and treatment funding by million in this year’s budget. Craig Stallings, the Administrator of Adult Services at Rosecrance, a substance abuse treatment center in Rockford, Illinois, explains the importance of treatment. James Duncan, a client at Gateway Foundation in Illinois, testifies to the problem of state waiting lists.

The Courts: How Obama Dropped the Ball

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Closely involved as strategic advisers were the so called “four hoursemen”: Jay Sekulow of the American Center for Law and Justice, Leonard Leo of the Federalist Society, C. Boyden Gray, former White House Counsel to President H.W. Bush and former head …
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Fresenius files suit over DaVita dialysis unit

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Fresenius Medical Care of Illinois filed suit Tuesday in the 12th Judicial Circuit Court in Will County against the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board in connection with the board's approval of an application by DaVita to open a new …
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