Under Senate Bill 1197, sponsored by Sen. David Gowan, R-Sierra Vista, and backed by Stand for Children Arizona, the courts would no longer be able to require juveniles or their parents or guardians to pay costs of probation, legal services, administrative fees, foster care, counseling, treatment, education programs, and any health care, food, clothing, shelter, or supervision while a child is incarcerated by the Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections.
Read More »Bill bars charging juveniles for probation costs
Hobbs sides with doctors, vetoes bill that would eliminate ‘sunrise process’ 
Gov. Katie Hobbs is siding with doctors and against other medical providers in the latest round of an ongoing dispute over the process the latter group has to go through to provide more services to the public.
Read More »McCain’s family says he’s stopping medical treatment
Sen. John McCain has chosen to discontinue medical treatment for brain cancer, the Arizona senator's family said.
Read More »Dearth of treatment services, ‘outmoded’ approach plague dually diagnosed patients
Treatment services are severely lacking for people who are diagnosed with mental illness and substance use disorders, and what some criticize as an outdated approach throws up obstacles in times of need.
Read More »Arizona senators: Border sewage pipeline at risk
NOGALES, Ariz. ai??i?? Arizona's senators are warning the State Department about risks posed by the deterioration of a pipeline that carries more than 10 million gallons of raw sewage daily from Mexico into the U.S. for treatment.
Read More »A failure to rehabilitate 
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.
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