State Senate investigators are calling on lawmakers to lift a ban on medical care in residential drug treatment facilities, pointing to dysfunction and deaths in facilities stymied by outdated laws. A report issued yesterday by the Senate Office of Oversight and Outcomes links lax oversight by the state Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs to the deaths of clients at private, inpatient drug treatment centers. It also details the way operators “tie themselves in knots” to comply with a ban on medical treatment while caring for sick people. "Almost everyone involved in the current system of regulating residential drug and alcohol programs
Ban on medical care at drug rehab centers must end
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