Politics is holding back the best tool for treating meth addiction

www.statnews.com Politics is holding back the best tool for treating meth addiction

Offering people incentives to stop using meth, a practice known as contingency management, runs against a federal cap of $75 per year. But officials are wary of political perceptions.

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Tldr: The tool is a behavioral intervention, paying the addicts to stay clean. It works but is controversial.

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- Republicans only like bribery for rich people, not poor people.
  
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  If you're rich, you're living ~~off the back of an exploited working class~~ the American Dream™. If you're poor, you need to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and work harder ~~to earn me even more wealth~~.
  
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