For more than two years, people who care for and about teenagers addicted to drugs have been waiting for the state to fulfill a promise to open an inpatient treatment facility in South Jersey.

Parents, health providers and agencies interested in hosting the treatment facility are at turns frustrated and bewildered by what hasn't happened.

The New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, the agency charged with getting the treatment center off the ground, will say only that it is in favor of more treatment options for adolescents in South Jersey.

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