This increase in drug use and overdoses is keeping local treatment facilities busy.
“We do a morning class and an evening class and my morning class is at that capacity,” David Junkin, clinical director for Alamo Center, said.Junkin said they offer intensive outpatient treatment for people battling substance use disorder. “It’s 80 hours minimum of treatment over a two month period, sometimes more besides the, the group sessions, we do individuals, minimum one hour a week,” he said.“Our personal caseload, our counselor caseload are getting high enough where we need to focus on we can’t spread itself too thin,” Junkin said.
Junkin said it’s vital to have these resources in the community in order to save lives and help combat the ongoing drug crisis.Alamo Center plans to open another location on the East Side to bring resources there.
I wish they would call this illegal drugs. Those of us who responsibly took our medication have severely been punished. Street drugs shouldn't be classified the same as medication. suffering
It's the illegal Fentanyl epidemic. The DEA war on Doctors for chronic pain patients.
Deaths of despair are a symptom of late stage capitalism. You want to help people, abolish this evil system and do it now.
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