NT rolls out mandatory alcohol rehabilitation
A new tribunal in the Northern Territory has the power to impose a three-month residential alcohol rehabilitation scheme on people who have been repeatedly placed in protective custody for drunkenness. And if a person absconds from rehab three times, …
Read more on ABC Online

EDITORIAL: Quit abiding fraud in drug rehab program
The Center for Investigative Reporting and CNN last month unveiled the results of a joint yearlong investigation into alcohol and drug addiction treatment for the poor. The reporting detailed widespread fraud in the Drug Medi-Cal program, the addiction …
Read more on Press-Enterprise

Viewpoint: How the Drug Treatment System Failed Cory Monteith
And that's where the “system” —the programs and facilities and treatment strategies most commonly called into action to help addicts — started to fail Monteith. The evidence suggests that many of these institutions are ineffective or even potentially …
Read more on TIME (blog)