The Affordable Care Act must be amended to provide for a minimum of Ninety (90) days inpatient drug or alcohol treatment up to a maximum of One Hundred Eighty (180) days per year at a facility certified to provide such care by the Secretary of Health of the state in which it is located. My son Nicholas Rossini agreed to receive treatment for his addiction and after only a few short weeks in treatment his insurance company denied coverage for further treatment! Nicholas paid the ultimate price with his life base on this insurance denial. Major savings to the individual and to society also stem from fewer interpersonal conflicts greater workplace productivity and fewer drug-related accidents, including overdoses and deaths. When savings related to healthcare are included, total savings can exceed costs by a ratio of 12 to 1. According to several conservative estimates, every dollar invested in addiction treatment programs yields a return of between $4 and $7 in reduced drug-related crime, criminal justice costs, and theft. Effective treatment can dramatically reduce these costs. In addition to the terrible human toll, substance abuse costs the U.S. Drug overdose is now the leading cause of accidental death in the United States, outstripping traffic fatalities or gun homicides. That averages out to an overdose related hospitalization every 13 seconds and an overdose death every 13 minutes.
Our family has been torn apart and we are all completely heartbroken.Įvery day in this country 119 people die from drug overdose, and another 6,748 are treated in emergency rooms. My son Anthony, 20, is a student at The University of Maine and my daughter Jessica is a sixth grader. In addition to Nicholas, I have two other children. My grandchild will never know his father. His child is due to be born July 5, 2015. He became depressed, relapsed and died, Janufrom a heroin overdose. He was so happy! All seemed well until he got laid off in November. Immediately preceding his untimely death, he got a job, got engaged and started a family. Nicholas would have stayed a year if he was not forced to leave based upon the insurance denial. We spent two weeks of fighting with insurance company to keep him in treatment, but they ultimately denied coverage for further treatment. My oldest child, Nicholas Rossini, age 22, agreed to go to treatment in July 2014, after we had a family intervention.
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