Excerpt from Extent and Adequacy of Insurance Coverage for Substance Abuse Services (Institute of Medicine Report: Treating Drug Problems), Vol. 1: A Study of the Evolution, Effectiveness, and Financing of Public and Private Drug Treatment Systems This report was prepared in response to Congressional direction _contained in Section 6005, PL 99-570, the Anti Drug Abuse Act of 1986. This Section of the law provided for the National Institute on Drug Abuse (nida) to fund the Institute of Medicine (iom) to study the extent and adequacy of coverage by public programs, private insurance and other sources of payment for the treatment and rehabilitation of persons with drug abuse problems. The resulting iom report, Treating Drug Problems; A study of the evolution, effectiveness, and financing of public and private drug treatment systems, is comprehensive and thought provoking. It looks at a broad range of drug treatment and service delivery issues and provides an important compilation and analysis of what is known and not known of the nation's drug abuse services delivery systems. A Committee of outstanding drug abuse and health services researchers, practitioners and program planners was appointed by the iom Division of Health Care Services to conduct this study. Their efforts included site visits to several treatment programs throughout the United States, analysis of available epidemiologic and services systems data on drug abuse, literature reviews, commissioned background papers, and interviews with experts in drug abuse treatment and services research, financing and delivery fields. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.