Viewpoints: Medi-Cal Cuts Are Shortsighted: Methadone Treatment Pays Off

BELINDA CARLISLE REGRETS BEING AN ABSENT MOTHER
Pop star BELINDA CARLISLE only has one regret about her 30-year battle with drug and alcohol abuse – she’s sorry she wasn’t a better mother.

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MAKING THE GRADE
As she graduated from Cumberland County’s Treatment Court Thursday, Lisa Peters called her former addiction a “tornado.” She said it ravaged her life and landed her in jail before she sought redemption in treatment court.

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Viewpoints: Medi-Cal cuts are shortsighted: Methadone treatment pays off
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger ‘s budget proposes cutting Medi-Cal funding for methadone maintenance. The $53 million that would ostensibly be saved would, in fact, cost Californians a lot more.

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