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Newsbrief:
Budget
Woes
Close
Detox,
Treatment
Facilities
in
NC,
Iowa
8/9/02
The budget crisis in the
states has claimed two more drug treatment victims, this time in Iowa and
North Carolina. In North Carolina, the Catawba County detoxification
center for alcohol and drug abusers will close August 9 because of state
cutbacks, the Charlotte Observer reported. The county Mental Health
Services Board, faced with a $1.4 million shortfall because of cuts at
the statehouse, axed the program, saying it would save the county $358,000
this fiscal year.
The closure also puts a kink
in plans for a long-delayed combined detox and outpatient drug treatment
center, which was to have started construction last fall. Currently,
the detox center and the outpatient clinic are in separate locations.
And starting next week, the detox center won't be there at all.
Meanwhile, budget woes have
forced the imminent closure of Iowa's only state-run drug rehabilitation
program. The Mt. Pleasant-based center treats nonviolent offenders
and parole violators who have agreed to participate in lieu of going to
or returning to prison. The program has stopped taking new clients
and will shut down after current clients finish their month-long program.
The state Department of Health and Safety estimated that it could save
$450,000 by shutting down the center, which currently has 30 residents.
But state Rep. Dave Heaton
(R-Mt. Pleasant) told his local newspaper the state was being penny wise
and pound foolish. Heaton told the Hawk Eye that in its bid to save
$450,000, Iowa would end up spending $3.5 million to imprison the approximately
200 people who would have been sent to the center.
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