Obama: Addiction is a Preventable Disease

(CNN, March 29) At the National Rx Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit in Atlanta, President Obama announced steps that will be taken to fight drug addiction. Among them include $11 million to states to expand treatment therapies using medication assistance, increasing the limit on the number of patients a doctor can treat with these medications, adding another $11 million to states to use naloxone, the opioid reversal drug, and establishing a Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Task Force. READ MORE.