Devil's Basil: true stories from the UAE about the perils of drugs
The surveys also found that 200,000 people die every year from drugs-related causes. The booklet narrowed addiction down to four stages, starting with the love of experience. Next comes acceptance of drug use, followed by regular abuse and then …
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Why Mentally Ill People Should Have Access to E-Cigarettes
The National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors reported in 2012 that people receiving public mental health services who have both an addiction and a mental illness die, on average, nearly 32 years earlier than others. Smoking is a …
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Subdued Alspaugh appears in court
A taser fires an electrical current, disrupting control of muscles, causing incapacitation. When Alspaugh was capable of walking … Without commenting specifically on Alspaugh, Kramer said drug abuse is too often a factor. Alspaugh was previously …
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FDA Oks new therapy to prevent hemophilia bleeding
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first hemophilia B treatment designed to decrease frequency of injections to prevent the excessive bleeding the clotting disorder causes. The medicine, Alprolix (all-PRO'licks), is …
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Paradigm Malibu Wins Second Consecutive Award for Teen Mental Health …
For the second year running, mental health treatment center Paradigm Malibu received recognition as the Best Residential Treatment Program for Adolescents. Awarded by not-for-profit organization Teen Help Alliance, the distinction singles out that …
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Addiction treatment hubs save money, state says
Meanwhile, treatment providers at some residential facilities are frustrated by the state's shift to more outpatient services; they say residential treatment is vital and will save more money in the long term. The hub and spoke system is comprised of …
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Richie Incognito admitted to treatment center
By Omar Kelly and Chris Perkins South Florida Sun Sentinel. 12:02 p.m. EST, February 28, 2014. DAVIE—. Miami Dolphins offensive lineman Richie Incognito has checked himself into a Arizona treatment facility where he will be psychologically evaluated …
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Florida Medical Care: Mental Health Is Priority
The May 20 Peace River Center veto — and others in Polk and other counties — accompanied his signing of the 2013-2014 state budget. Florida's governor has line-item budget veto authority. Scott used an oft-cited reason for the rejection: "Funds go to …
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Edgewater High School opens health care center for students
Funded by Florida Hospital and Florida Department of Health, the Orlando high school opened a new health care center on campus, that will be staffed with a full-time nurse practitioner. Nurse practitioners can write prescriptions, give treatments …
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Finney County Community Health Coalition part of national pilot project
The Finney County Community Health Coalition, sponsored by St. Catherine Hospital, is leading a local effort to enhance community planning for dealing with concerns related to behavioral health, including mental health and substance use. Verna Weber …
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Alabama Legislature approves 'Carly's Law' – CBS46 News
The oil does not provide a high for users and neurologists say there's growing evidence that it helps control epilepsy and other neurological disorders that produce serious, debilitating and life-threatening seizures that cannot be controlled with …
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Addiction: Nature versus Nurture
For instance, half of all people diagnosed with bipolar disorder have also been diagnosed with a substance use disorder. Their increased risk for addiction has little to do with the way addictive substances and behaviors are experienced in the body …
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Medical examiner confirms latest fatal heroin overdose
The other drug, police Lt. Mark Newport said, was alprazolam, a prescription drug with the trade name Xanax that is used to treat anxiety and panic disorders. Newport said no heroin or drug paraphernalia was found at the scene of Sclafani's death, so …
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10 essential benefits all insurance policies must carry
Mental health and substance abuse services: All policies must provide coverage for both inpatient and outpatient care, though some carriers may limit this to 20 days each per year. — Prescription drugs: At least one drug in every … Rehabilitative …
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Legislators are told addiction services are fragmented, clients younger
Ms. Flanagan chairs the Senate's Special Committee on Drug Abuse and Treatment Options, which held a half-day hearing Monday at Mount Wachusett Community College to get perspectives about what is wrong with the addiction treatment system and how it …
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Woman awaiting drug treatment is sentenced for various crimes
LAMBERTVILLE — A 22-year-old Hamilton woman was sentenced to 364 days in jail while awaiting a bed in an inpatient drug treatment center. Cassandra Durkin was sentenced Feb. 28 by Judge Stephen B. Rubin to three years' probation in addition to the …
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People: Savannah Guthrie, L'Wren Scott, Lady Gaga, Chris Brown and more!
Brown was initially sentenced to probation after the attack, but, after his involvement in a fight late last year in Washington, D.C., he was charged in Washington with misdemeanor assault and sentenced in Los Angeles to three months of inpatient rehab …
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Breaking stigma: The question of mental health reform
While mental health covers mental disability itself– which is the third most common disability in the entire country – it encompasses a far wider range of issues like alcoholism, drug abuse, depression, and even phobias. … Two of our largest mental …
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