mental health

Nevada Psychiatric Hospital's Busing of Mental Patients Was Disturbing to Workers

Nevada psychiatric hospital's busing of mental patients was disturbing to workers

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According to the nurse, the pressure is most acute within the hospital's psychiatric observation unit, where patients are assessed to determine whether they need to be admitted for inpatient care. Nevada cut mental health spending 28 percent between …
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National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame: Mr. Bilsky

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Native American Answers Only: What Are Your Thoughts of Natives That Don’t Get the Helping Hand They Deserve?

Question by REUBEN B: Native American answers only: What are your thoughts of natives that don’t get the helping hand they deserve?
like how natives are just pushed to the side in health care, drug treatments and the likes. most natives who are charged with crimes as they call them like alcohol abuse, drug abuse, and homelessness. they really don’t try to get the natives in treatment they just let them go home where they will more than likely turn back to the vises that are plaguing the native community. just want to know your native thoughts on such a dire situation.

Shocker: Oregon Health Study Shows No Significant Health Impacts From

Shocker: Oregon Health Study Shows No Significant Health Impacts from

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We also explored the impact of health insurance on the quality of outpatient care (admissions for ambulatory care sensitive conditions) and three measures of quality of care for inpatient care (not having an adverse patient safety event, not being …
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RiverView restructuring Glenmore services; detoxification/residential facility

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Awards for Raising Drug Prevention and Treatment Awareness

Awards for raising drug prevention and treatment awareness

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The Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse honored those on the front lines fighting addiction. Medical reporter Meg Farris emceed as people who work in prevention and treatment were given awards. A community leadership award was handed out to Major …
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Mental illness, substance abuse sap time, resources of Duncan PD

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Kavinoky Gives Top-Notch Treatment to 'August: Osage County'

Kavinoky gives top-notch treatment to 'August: Osage County'

Filed under: Chicago Drug Abuse

It's the voice of his cancer-afflicted, pill-addicted wife Violet (the extraordinary Sheila McCarthy), a primordial creature doomed by genetics and fate to inflict the pain of her illness, her addiction and her apparently wretched childhood on anyone …
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Gunman called cops to find out if cops were following him

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Celator Pharmaceuticals Inks $32.5M in New Funding

Celator Pharmaceuticals Inks .5M in New Funding

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Celator Pharmaceuticals, Inc., with locations in Princeton, NJ, and Vancouver, BC, is a privately held pharmaceutical company developing new and more effective therapies to treat cancer. CombiPlex®, the company's proprietary drug ratio technology …
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Attention-Deficit Drugs Face New Campus Rules

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