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Article: S. Utah County needs drug-treatment facility, official says
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- May 22, 2007
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PROVO -- The time for needing two -- or maybe even three --
county-government sponsored drug treatment facilities in Utah County
is here.
In fact, depending on to whom you speak, it's been here for a
while.
According to the Utah County Department of Substance Abuse, the
top five cities with the highest percentage of admittance into the
county's drug treatment program are all in southern Utah County.
While that doesn't necessarily mean southern Utah County has a
bigger drug problem than northern Utah County, it does mean the
southern cities have a need for a closer drug treatment facility
than Provo, says Richard Nance, director of Utah County's Department
of Substance Abuse.
"What (the ...