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Ruth, It may not be until we get an emergency room physician who has seen some of this train wreck up close and personal into the governor's mansion... And smarmy mental health and drug and alcohol treatment groups like Cascadia BHC.  How about some over sight of Department of Corrections which conducts its own outcome studies on the drug dependent inmates selected for their treatment programs?  We need institutions that will tell the truth about the efficacy of the programs that they administer.  We need to pay the primary counselors who work in many of these MMT clinics better than the union janitors who clean the place up at night.  And finally we need early full scale (every grade age appropriate presentations), thouroughly integrated education in our public school system.

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