Durbin Pushes Addiction Treatment Funding, Policing Reforms
Bill Clark / Pool via AP Addiction and mental health treatment centers in Illinois will get $92 million through the American Rescue Plan (ARP) to address what advocates say was the worst public health crisis in the country before the pandemic. “We were witnessing skyrocketing races of suicide before COVID-19, but COVID-19 has made these epidemics worse,” U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin said Friday during a virtual news conference with mental health and addiction treatment experts. “These epidemics feed on isolation and despair and reduction in essential services.” Dr. Obari Cartman, left, ...
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