A recent alert from the CEnter for Substance Abuse Research presented a snippet of data from a survey on attitudes towards health care services for addiction. I tracked back to the original survey for some additional data and was pleasantly surprised to find majorities in favor of improving health care services for the drug addicted in the US.

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The Americans for Medical Progress has announced that three young science advocates will be named the 2009 Michael D. Hayre Fellows in Public Outreach. Readers will recall a recent plea from me to donate to this Fellowship program. I had heard via the grapevine that income from the endowment supporting the fellowship was down and that the applicant pool was really exciting this year. An effort was being undertaken to drum up additional donations and apparently that effort has been very successful.
From the AMP Press Release:

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