Non-religious addiction treatment programs should be receiving a proportional amount of funding based on the populations they are treating. If 25 percent of the USA are non-believers, there must be a significant number of Americans not receiving the treatment they need.
November 20, 2019
By Pamela Manson
With millions of people working to overcome addiction, (click here) the Secular Coalition for America has begun lobbying Congress to shift some federal funding for recovery help to nonreligious programs.
Sarah Levin, the coalition's director of governmental affairs, said the idea is getting support."
Comprehensive and evidence-based approaches to the opioid epidemic are both popular and bipartisan," Levin told UPI in an email. "Heading into 2020, we are pleased with our progress and are optimistic that we can secure the funding necessary to save lives and build a better future."
At a Capitol Hill gathering on Sept. 27, representatives from some of the coalition's 19 member groups -- including Black Nonbelievers Inc., the American Humanist Association, American Atheists, the Center for Inquiry, the Freedom From Religion Foundation and the Society for Humanistic Judaism -- visited nearly 100 House and Senate offices to talk policy....
...Twelve-step and other faith-based programs are widely accessible, but with the unaffiliated religious demographic at 25 percent in the United States, there is a growing population of nonbelievers who want faith-free meetings, she said....
