A failure to rehabilitate 
By Christian Palmer
Published: August 5, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Arizona spent $121 million on drug- and alcohol-treatment programs in 2008, but a report by the Arizona Auditor General’s Office indicates the programs have failed to change the behavior of most substance-abusing patients.
Nearly half of the patients who began substance-abuse treatment during the past three years dropped out before finishing the programs, according to state ...