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The Illinois Senate and House Mental Health and Addiction Joint Committee has been holding a series of hearings to discuss various aspects of funding and treatment.
The average cost of drug rehabilitation is $13,475 per person, according to the National Center for Drug Abuse Statistics. Counseling Schools Stigma remains a major barrier to treatment
Kwame Raoul (/ ˈ k w ɑː m eɪ r ɑː ˈ uː l /, born September 30, 1964) is an American lawyer and politician who has been the 42nd Attorney General of Illinois since 2019.He is a member of the Democratic Party.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA; pronounced / ˈ s æ m s ə /) is a branch of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.SAMHSA is charged with improving the quality and availability of treatment and rehabilitative services in order to reduce illness, death, disability, and the cost to society resulting from substance abuse and mental illnesses.
The drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse. The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States. There is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision. Examples: heroin, LSD, marijuana, MDMA (ecstasy), methaqualone (quaalude). Schedule II
Driving under the influence of alcohol is illegal in the U.S., and 330 people were killed in alcohol-related crashes in 2021, according to the 2023 Illinois DUI Fact Book.. But state law differs ...
The zero-tolerance practice in Illinois of sending any youth charged with drug crimes within 1,000 feet of any school or public housing project directly to adult court has resulted in the largest racial disparity in the country—over 99% of youth affected by this policy were minority youth.
Michael L. Hecht is a researcher in the field of human communication, emphasising the areas of interpersonal and inter-ethnic relationships, identity, and adolescent drug resistance. In 1973, Hecht earned his M.A. from Queens College, City University of New York and his Ph.D. I in communications from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.