As the United States marks the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty this month, a new report suggests one recent weapon in the battle has been a disappointing failure. The federal government has made marriage promotion among single ...
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It survived a U.S. Supreme Court challenge, multiple repeal attempts, delays of key provisions and a disastrous rollout, and now the Affordable Care Act, also known as "Obamacare," marks a major milestone. Beginning Jan. 1, millions of ...
In the largest ever assessment of substance use among people with severe psychiatric illness, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of Southern California have found that rates of smoking, ...
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Slightly less than 1 percent of U.S. anesthesiology residents who began their training between 1975 and 2009 had a substance abuse disorder during their residency, a new study reveals. Researchers examined data gathered from nearly 45,000 ...
The widely held belief that mentally ill substance abusers are the most frequent users of hospital emergency departments is an "urban legend," a new study claims. Researchers examined emergency room visits by more than 212,000 Medicaid ...
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The number of U.S. teens who wind up in the emergency room after taking the club drug Ecstasy has more than doubled in recent years, raising concerns that the hallucinogen is back in vogue, federal officials report. Emergency room visits ...
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CA Nora Lighting's recent holiday donation to PATH will help homeless individuals and families, including veterans, find permanent housing solutions in communities throughout southern California. "PATH has one of the most successful ...
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Mice pups raised without a father had abnormal social interactions and were more aggressive than those raised with both parents, Canadian researchers say. Dr. Gabriella Gobbi, a researcher at the Mental Illness and Addiction Axis at the ...
The U.S. government is allocating $50 million to help Community Health Centers establish or expand therapy for mental illness and drug and alcohol problems. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said it plans to issue $50 ...
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From 2005-11, ecstasy-related U.S. hospital emergency department visits rose 128 percent for those age 21 and younger, mental health officials said. A report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, part of the ...
Nearly 1-in-100 anesthesiology residents entering primary training from 1975 to 2009 developed substance use disorder during training, U.S. researchers say. Dr. David Warner of Mayo Clinic's Department of Anesthesiology and the American ...
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Nearly 1-in-100 anesthesiology residents entering primary training from 1975 to 2009 developed substance use disorder during training, U.S. researchers say. Dr. David Warner of Mayo Clinic's Department of Anesthesiology and the American ...
Increased spirituality in teens undergoing substance abuse treatment is associated with greater likelihood of abstinence, U.S. researchers say. Co-investigators Matthew T. Lee, a professor the University of Akron and vice president of the ...
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U.S. government agencies say they closed the loopholes that kept insured patients from being treated for mental illness or substance abuse. "This final rule breaks down barriers that stand in the way of treatment and recovery services for ...
Tire Pros, the retail franchise division of American Tire Distributors (ATD), has partnered with the nonprofit National Center for Prevention and Research Solutions (NCPRS in the launch of its "Stay On Track" drug education program and ...
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