"My Kind of Town Sacramento Is"

"My Kind Of Town Sacramento Is"

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Avon needed help from a long drug addiction and devastating relapse. A friend referred her to St. John's, where she called daily for weeks, until she was finally admitted. Today there are 200-300 on a waiting list, which may take days to months before …
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Is the Medical Community Failing Breastfeeding Moms?

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“It's an hour, or a half a day, and [students] don't remember anything,” says Dr. Todd Wolynn, a Pittsburgh pediatrician and executive director of the Breastfeeding Center of Pittsburgh. There were … pregnancy. Perhaps they'd prescribe a galactogogue …
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Some fear rules cast poor families adrift

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Do you want to be a lawyer?' ” Terrance says. “You have to go to school. You have to get good grades.” Terrance is trying. Clean of drugs, he goes to vocational rehab at night twice a week. While the kids are in school, he is in classes at Washburn …
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