Treatment Professionals: Take Action to End Discrimination: "Treatment Professionals: Take Action to End Discrimination
6/30/2004
Feature Commentary
By David Rosenbloom, Ph.D.
If addiction relapse occurs, clients, families, and payers often think that treatment 'failed.' But addiction professionals know that their work may not be enough if their client has no home, job, or access to food stamps or child care. Many of the major obstacles on the road to recovery are the result of public and private policies that discriminate against people with alcohol or other drug disease. "
