After Hitting Rock Bottom, NJ Drug Users Must Wait for Treatment

Published February 16, 2014

After hitting rock bottom, NJ drug users must wait for treatment
A few weeks later, Eric was moved off the waitlist at a local treatment facility in Ocean County, N.J. However he had been trying to stop using drugs on his own while he waited for help, and the program he was accepted into was the kind of place that … Read more on Newsworks.org

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