Cuts will cause a lot of pain for drug treatment programs
By Mary Schenk
Thursday July 31, 2008
URBANA – Major cuts in state funding to local social services will likely result in overburdened hospital emergency rooms, crowded jails and more people going to prison, local service providers contend.
A group of administrators for Prairie Center Health Systems, the Mental Health Center of Champaign County, Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities and the Danville Area United Way said at a news conference Wednesday that $55 million in cuts to the budget of the Department of Human Services will have immediate negative consequences at the local level.
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