As the opioid crisis has taken more and more lives in recent years, payments to opioid treatment centers in Illinois have stayed flat.
Meanwhile, people in Chicago neighborhoods with the highest rates of addiction and overdoses are often the least likely to get treatment.
Morning Shift digs into why some Illinois residents who need help kicking opioids are not getting the help they need and what the state of our state’s finances have to do with it.
GUEST: Kristen Schorsch, healthcare reporter for Crain’s Chicago Business
LEARN MORE: The Opioid Treatment Gap (Crain’s)