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The American Medical Association (AMA) is a professional group that publishes research to advance public health. The AMA recommends several policies to combat substance abuse. First, the AMA proposes increasing the number of beds in hospitals that are available for patients who are seeking treatment for substance abuse. Only about 10 percent of the nearly two million people with a substance-use disorder can access treatment. Another recommendation by the AMA is to speed the approval of different drugs to treat substance abuse. The AMA also recommends that insurance companies treat mental health issues as quickly as physical health issues. The current approval process for accessing substance-abuse treatment has several steps. What is a logical solution to the issue of substance abuse presented in the passage? renewing the “Just Say No” program to prevent substance abuse maintaining several steps in the approval process for mental health treatment increasing the number of beds available for substance-abuse treatment in hospitals keeping the drug-approval process at current levels to ensure that drugs are safe