[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 616 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 616

  Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Phoenix House, the success and 
   contributions of Phoenix House with respect to the treatment and 
 prevention of substance abuse, and the significant role that Phoenix 
  House has played in raising public awareness and formulating public 
                                policy.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 3, 2007

  Mrs. Maloney of New York (for herself, Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson of 
    Texas, Mr. Sherman, Mr. Sessions, Mrs. Napolitano, Mr. Neal of 
Massachusetts, Mr. Weiner, Mrs. Gillibrand, Mr. Israel, Mr. Hodes, Mr. 
 Filner, Mr. Hall of New York, Ms. Loretta Sanchez of California, and 
   Mr. Smith of Texas) submitted the following resolution; which was 
            referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Phoenix House, the success and 
   contributions of Phoenix House with respect to the treatment and 
 prevention of substance abuse, and the significant role that Phoenix 
  House has played in raising public awareness and formulating public 
                                policy.

Whereas Phoenix House is one of the largest substance abuse treatment providers 
        in the United States, treating nearly 6,000 men, women, and adolescents 
        each day at more than 100 programs in nine States, including New York, 
        California, Texas, Florida, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, 
        Vermont, and Maine;
Whereas Phoenix House pioneered a drug-free approach to treat substance abuse 
        and addiction, provided training for a generation of substance abuse 
        counselors who staff programs throughout the United States, and 
        conducted some of the earliest studies of the process and impact of 
        substance abuse treatment;
Whereas Phoenix House established Phoenix Academies, which are residential high 
        schools for adolescents in treatment for substance abuse;
Whereas the Department of Justice named Phoenix Academies a ``model program'' 
        and the RAND Corporation found Phoenix Academies to be demonstrably 
        effective and superior to other programs for adolescents in treatment 
        for substance abuse;
Whereas during the past 40 years, Phoenix House has treated nearly 50,000 people 
        for substance abuse at residential centers for adults; at Phoenix 
        Academies; at outpatient, after-school, and lay programs; and at 
        programs in prisons and homeless shelters;
Whereas Phoenix House has enabled hundreds of adolescents in the United States 
        to complete their high school education, strengthened innumerable 
        families, and provided a stabilizing influence in communities across 
        much of the United States;
Whereas Phoenix House provides drug education and prevention programs through 
        in-school and after-school programs, reaching more than 30,000 
        adolescents every year; and
Whereas Phoenix House is celebrating its 40th anniversary on October 16, 2007, 
        and it is appropriate to focus public awareness on the efforts of 
        Phoenix House to address the critical problem of substance abuse in the 
        United States: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That--
            (1) it is the sense of the House of Representatives that--
                    (A) all people of the United States should keep 
                victims of substance abuse in their thoughts and 
                prayers; and
                    (B) all people of the United States should seek to 
                break the cycle of substance abuse, giving people who 
                struggle with substance abuse hope for a future free of 
                addiction and an emotionally and physically healthy 
                future; and
            (2) the House of Representatives--
                    (A) supports the goals and ideals of Phoenix House; 
                and
                    (B) commends Phoenix House for all of its efforts 
                on behalf of adults and adolescents throughout the 
                United States who are struggling with addiction and 
                substance abuse.
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