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How To Get Off Heroin: An inadequate addiction treatment system takes on an epidemic

“You get this situation where you’ve got people saying ‘Hey, I’ve got to be somewhere, I’m desperate,’ and there’s no where; the system is backed up,” said Jay Sacchetti, vice president of shelter and housing at Servicenet.
It’s not hard to see why so many addicts fall through the system’s cracks when the number of treatment beds are considered. At each step of recovery, the availability of services shrinks.

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