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Biotech / Medical : DTOX - CITA BIOMEDICAL, ULTRA RAPID OPIATE DETOXIFICATION -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cisco who wrote (48)	3/10/1999 12:34:00 PM
From: Frank Buck	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 96

Cisco, I took the liberty of paraphrasing some of the salient issues from last nights ABC broadcast transcripts. There are sufficient federal monies available to warrant an attempt at introducing a de-facto standard remediation technique such as CITA's UROD detox system. The penal system alone houses 900,000 addicts that require remediation. That is an incredible figure when lumped in with those outside of the jail systems. One can fully expect the private health care insurers to throw some large money at this problem shortly. * For treatment and prevention, the drug budget has gone from $13.5 billion in FY '96 to $17.8 billion in the year 2000. * The current system lacks health parity for drug treatment in the private sector. * Currently the system has done an inadequate job of providing drug treatment for those behind bars, 1.8 million Americans behind bars, of which 900,000 have a compulsive drug using problem. Three years ago there were 12 drug courts. Today there are almost 500 either online or coming online. It is estimated that 1000 drug courts will be the more realistic number of courts needed to adequately address the situation. The U.S saddly lacks drug treatment health parity in the health insurance business. There is an intent to more effectively get at the problem of closing this treatment gap, particularly in the criminal justice system. * There has never been more federal dollars in treatment.... ever. It's gone up enormously just in the last four years. In addition, the drug addiction problem is bigger. There are 4.1 million Americans who are compulsive drug users, another 10 million chronic alcoholics. The dimensions of our drug response are inadequate. We'll never get there with just federal funding. We're going to have to have some form of health insurance parity for drug treatment. We are trying to link drug treatment systems with the criminal justice system.. It's called Break The Cycle. It's a Janet Reno concept. It says..." if you're arrested, and you will be if you end up as a compulsive drug user, you're going to be in mandated drug treatment." The health insurance industry will save money under smart management if we provide drug treatment instead of waiting until these people show up in hospital emergency rooms or traffic accidents or behind bars. Prevention's been a tough one to sell to the health maintenance people and the health insurance people. Proponents include Senator Campbell and Orrin Hatch and Joe Biden and in the House, Denny Hastert, Rob Portman and Sandy Levin. There's four million chronic addicts and we simply have to get effective drug treatment into place.