Discrimination against drug addicts that suffer with an addiction, only a few will receive treatment due to the complexity of health care systems. Most health care systems do not have insurance coverage for addiction recovery and many health care providers have little to no training in treating addiction. Some doctors do not feel comfortable treating an addiction due to their lack of knowledge and training of the topic. This is one of the reasons why drug dependence is difficult to recover from. Among injecting drug users, the incidence of HIV infection is higher than among other drug addicts, however punitive and discriminatory measures against
Center for Drug and Alcohol Programs Center for Drug and Alcohol Programs The Center for Drug and Alcohol Programs (CDAP) at Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) is located in Charleston. The center provides treatment and research for drug, alcohol and substance addiction. It is one of only 14 National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded Alcohol Research Centers in the United States. In 2012, the Center for Drug and Alcohol Programs, through its affiliation with MUSC’s College of Medicine, ranked as one of America’s Best Graduate Schools for the study of drug and alcohol abuse by the U.S. News and World Report. The director of CDAP