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The future of treatment spending
Posted on October 09, 2008
Health Affairs looks at the future of substance abuse treatment spending. The future looks pretty grim:Growth in SA spending is forecasted to average 5.0 percent between 2003 and 2014, slightly faster than the rate of 4.8 percent in the 1986-2003 historical period. Over the next decade, SA spending growth is expected to continue to increase at slower rates than MH health spending, mainly because pharmacotherapy, which has driven increases in MH spending, currently plays only a small role in SA treatment. This is expected to result in an SA share that falls from 1.3 to 1.0 percent of all-health...
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