Health Care Changes Mean Addiction Treatment Coverage in 2014 – FOX19.com …

Published June 10, 2013

Health care changes mean addiction treatment coverage in 2014 – FOX19.com …

Filed under: drug abuse foundation

Anita Prater, Director of Brighton Recovery Center for Women in Florence says, "Addiction and alcoholism is such a complicated disease that people still don't understand it as a medical disease, and it's about time it continues to be treated that way …
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Africa hopes to speed up medicine approval systems

Filed under: drug abuse foundation

Hiiti Sillo, director general of the Tanzania Food and Drugs Authority, said the project, which is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, will help drug manufacturers to prepare one set of technical documents instead of dozens for the …
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Crane operator charged with manslaughter in Philadelphia building collapse

Filed under: drug abuse foundation

Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter on Friday recommended random drug tests for heavy equipment operators and other safeguards as part of a sweeping set of reforms after the building collapse. The city will also require demolition contractors to … If …
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