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Aleanna Siacon Detroit Free Press Published 8:00 AM EST Jan 31, 2019 For months, Michigan's Department of Health and Human Services has stalled on providing payment records for burial assistance cases from the last five years — tax-supported funds that totaled more than $3.7 million in fiscal 2017 alone.   From Detroit to Canton and Flint, several instances of improperly stored fetuses and infants, poorly embalmed bodies and botched funeral dispositions at funeral homes and cemeteries across southeast Michigan have surfaced. As part of its effort to better understand the circumstances surrounding hundreds of cases of unburied human remains that have been discovered in the last several months, the Free Press has repeatedly requested state records concerning payments for indigent burials, but state officials have failed to provide the information as required under the Michigan Freedom of Information Act. Read More: … [Read more...] about State stalls on inquiry about millions paid in burial assistance

Georgea Kovanis Detroit Free Press Published 1:19 p.m. UTC Aug 10, 2018 Previous rehabs hadn’t worked, so this spring, intent once again, on getting off heroin, the 21-year-old Wyandotte woman who was introduced to drugs by her ex-boyfriend, decided to try something different. She decided to seek help from a medication-assisted treatment program — the kind where a doctor replaces heroin or opioid painkillers with buprenorphine, a medication that is designed to help addicts get clean by curbing their cravings and easing withdrawal.  Except when the woman called for an appointment, she couldn't get one. The doctor's office had a waiting list and, she said, told her it could be weeks, even months before she might get a turn — a wait that could prove deadly for a relapse-prone addict hooked on an especially dangerous drug. In the midst of the nation's opioid epidemic, delays in getting … [Read more...] about This drug can help kick addiction, but it’s hard to find