Congress continues to work at a fast and furious pace to come to an agreement on healthcare reform legislation. It is imperative that the final version of healthcare reform includes language that explicitly includes substance abuse prevention in the definition of community based prevention; and explicitly includes substance use disorders as part of the definition of chronic disease, condition or illness.

Please take action and contact your congressional delegation right away!

CADCA’s (Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America) fax system allows you to automatically fax CADCA’s sample letter on this issue to your legislators from its website. To send faxes to your legislators, go to http://capwiz.com/cadca/home.

If you would like to personalize your letter with examples from your state/community, please email dkurosky@cadca.org for a MS Word version of the sample letter.