The Boston Globe, August 3rd, 1988
Governor Dukakis deserves great credit for initiating -- and funding -- the most ambitious program in the nation aimed at getting drug addicts under treatment to cure their addiction and prevent AIDS. This step also could lead to placing the treament of addiction in the mainstream of medical care. Massachusetts has 40,000 needle-using drug abusers. By adding $2.6 million for methadone-treatment programs, plus $3.1 million to allow Medicaid -- for the first time -- to pay for treatment, the state will be able to offer help to about half of these drug abusers through existing clinics and live-in...
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