Helping Patients who Drink Too Much, online course developed by the National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse

Behind Bars II: Substance Abuse and America’s Prison Population is a new report from CASA showing that 1.5 million of the 2.3 million people in the nation’s prisons and jails meet the medical criteria for substance abuse or addiction and that only 11 percent receive any treatment during incarceration. According to the report, if all inmates who needed treatment and aftercare services received these services, the nation would break even in a year if just over 10 percent remained substance and crime free and employed.

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