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<div>He was lamenting the fact that due to cost, treatment often isn't available to most people until they get into significant legal trouble. His opinion was that <strong>quality</strong> treatment should be available on demand . . . he thinks early intervention for those who want it is much more likely to be successful before people become firmly entrenched in the criminal lifestyle that all too often accompanies substance addiction.</div>
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<div>It's not terribly often that we agree on big issues, but early treatment is one.</div>
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<div>I don't know about anyone else, but in my younger years, I knew all too many young adults who recognized they had a problem with alcohol and/or drugs but didn't have the financial means to get real treatment.</div>
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<div>On the original question (does Moscow have a meth problem?), that seems to me to be a no-brainer: yes, it does. In our old residential neighborhood (east Moscow: east of Main, north of the Troy Highway, west of Mountain View, and south of the high school), a meth lab was busted across the street & about a half-block down from our house. Right in town! </div>
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<div>FWIW,</div>
<div>Saundra Lund</div>
<div>Moscow, ID</div>
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<div>On Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:41 -0700, "Sunil Ramalingam" <sunilramalingam@hotmail.com> wrote:</div>
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