Voucher Program will Benefit Recovery Community
Article at Join Together that is a response to another article published earlier this month - "Bob Curley, in his July 10th article about the President's proposed Access to Recovery program, presents a view of addiction recovery that is centered in treatment. The article presents views that are skeptical of community or faith based paths to recovery, inasmuch as these recovery assets are presented as not conforming to traditional treatment outcome measures. It is as if treatment is the goal of all this activity. As Curley notes, the Senate appropriations committee that recently declined to fund the initial request for funds for this program conceded that 'there are many paths to treatment'. Recovery advocates see treatment as one path to recovery."  
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NAMI Releases new TRIAD Report
Story at the NAMI web site on the Treatment/Recovery Information and Advocacy Database report, which was released yesterday - "People living with mental illness in America are paying a high price for failures of the mental health system and continuing public stigma. In a national survey of 3400 people living with the most serious mental illnesses, 86% were in the prime of life, between 18 and 54, but two-thirds are unemployed: 55% live on an annual income below $10,000. In the absence of community treatment, nearly half were hospitalized last year; 40% had crisis emergency care." See also the full report (Adobe Acrobat format).  
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