California pays people with addiction to stay clean — with feds’ blessing

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Led by California, a few states are testing an experimental program that pays people to stop using hard drugs.

The Golden State was the first to win approval from the Biden administration to cover the sobriety payments, with Medicaid wrapping it into an ambitious health-care initiative spearheaded by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom to provide the state’s sickest residents with a broad array of behavioral health and social services. Washington state and Montana have since followed.

Source: California pays people with addiction to stay clean — with feds’ blessing – The Washington Post