Demand Treatment!

Join Together, a project of the Boston University School of Public Health, began the Demand Treatment! initiative to expand the demand for and access to quality drug and alcohol treatment among 28 partner communities. In 2000, leadership groups in fourteen communities received small monetary awards and assistance, and another fourteen communities benefited in 2002.

The Demand Treatment! model proved to be an effective, low cost way to increase local leadership, establish new programs and change local policies to improve alcohol and drug treatment. Partner communities were able to increase treatment capacity, increase funding, incorporate screenings and brief interventions for substance use into routine practice, and establish an ongoing effort to increase quality treatment.

Although Demand Treatment is no longer an active program activity of Join Together, the work continues in these communities. Join Together will continue to publish updates on their success and lessons learned.

Below are links to major content on this site featuring Demand Treatment priorities.

Key Issues

• Screening and Brief Intervention
• Improve Quality Treatment
• Support Community Coalitions
• End Discrimination

Other Sections

• Communities in Action
• What Can I Do?
• What Others Have Done
• In Your State
• Action Alerts

Resources

• Demand Treatment! Lessons Learned

For more information about the Demand Treatment! program, contact Carol Girard at 617-437-1500.