$20 million local heroin treatment shortfall begins today
July 1, 2014
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Ohio Republican Party spokesman: Drug treatment funding is nothing more than “more money for government”
Columbus – Today, a $20 million shortfall in local government substance abuse treatment takes affect under a new Kasich Administration policy in how it handles federal grant money for treatment. [Source: Toledo Blade, (5/30/2014)] In addition, recent budgetary changes by the Kasich Administration will redirect funding ordinarily given to local mental health and drug treatment boards and reallocate it for State spending. [Source: Toledo Blade (6/30/2014), “Risky Budget.”]