Residential addiction treatment for adolescen
<p>Access to residential addiction treatment centers caring for U.S. adolescents under 18 years old in the United States is limited and costly, according to <a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2023.00777">a new study</a><u> supported by the National Institutes of Health</u>. Researchers found that only about half (54%) of the residential addiction treatment facilities that they contacted had a bed immediately available, and for those that had a waitlist, the average estimated time before a bed opened was 28 days. In additi...