Friday, April 04, 2003

Expanding Addiction Treatment Capacity to Meet All Needs
This page indexes low and high bandwidth versions of the April 2 NCADI Webcast on this topic - "In support of the Office of National Drug Control Policy’s Demand Reduction Goals, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has been at the forefront of efforts to expand the capacity of local communities to treat substance use disorders. Programs such as SAMHSA's Targeted Capacity Expansion (TCE) have been designed to address discrepancies in treatment capacity by responding to unmet specific local needs for alcohol and drug treatment services. SAMHSA has also studied both behavioral and addiction treatment financing systems in order to put forward novel approaches aimed at expanding science-based addiction treatment capacity." A related webcast is scheduled for April 16.