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Closing the Addiction Treatment Gap Brochure
May 2009
This brochure provides a brief overview of the Closing the Addiction Treatment Gap initiative, its aims and grantees.

Issue Brief #1: Defining Alcohol and Drug Addiction
April 2009
Addiction meets all three medically defined criteria used to classify an entity as a disease: addiction has recognized causal agents, identifiable signs and symptoms, and addiction causes changes in the body.

Issue Brief #2: Defining the Addiction Treatment Gap
April 2009
Right now more than 23 million Americans suffer from alcohol and drug addiction and need treatment; only one in 10 of them (2.4 million) gets the treatment they need.