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Stay informed with periodic news and announcements from the Closing the Addiction Treatment Gap Program.

publications-and-articles

Unforeseen Benefits: Addiction Treatment Reduces Health Care Costs
July 2009
This OSI publication demonstrates how addiction treatment significantly reduces emergency room, inpatient, and total health care costs in the United States.


More publications-and-articles

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.

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