UP drug treatment, mental health center proposed

By P.J. GLISSON

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BESSEMER — Members of the Finance, Budgeting and Auditing Committee of the Gogebic County Board of Commissioners voted last week to accept and file a written proposal to help initiate a new drug treatment and mental health center in the U.P.

Commissioner Joseph Bonovetz said the proposal that Houghton County Administrator Ben Larson submitted to the Upper Peninsula Coalition for Area Progress.

Larson’s proposal says that there is U.P.-wide support to establish a U.P. Drug Treatment and Mental Health Crisis Stabilization Unit Center.

No location for the p...