Ground broken on detox center

14 May 2012 at 11:29pm
Crews are beginning work on a $4.5 million project that will become Lehigh County's first Alcohol and Drug Detoxification facility. Ground was broken Monday at the site next to the county's corrections center on Riverside Drive in Salisbury Township. It's a project that's taken nearly a decade to come to fruition. "It always takes a long time to locate a site for these kinds of facilities ...

Work begins on $4.5 million Lehigh County detox center

14 May 2012 at 5:00pm
Officials tout importance of $4.5 million Salisbury Township facility that will allow about 700 patients a year to be treated closer to home. Lehigh County officials formally broke ground Monday on a new alcohol and drug detoxification center, a project that will allow about 700 patients per year to receive treatment closer to home.

Ground broken on drug, alcohol addiction treatment center

14 May 2012 at 2:29pm
Addiction is a disease that knows no boundaries. After more than a decade of trying, however, Lehigh County officials said a detoxification and treatment program will soon be offered. "We had been probably the largest metropolitan area in Pennsylvania that did not have its own alcohol and drug rehabilitation program," said Lehigh County Executive Don Cunningham. After a decade of setbacks ...