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Taxpayers Spend $41.3 Million in a Year to Advertise Food Stamps, a 6-Fold

Taxpayers spend .3 million in a year to advertise food stamps, a 6-fold

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Spending on advertising and outreach for food stamps has increased six-fold since 2000 — reaching $ 41.3 million in 2011, according to a new GOP report. According to calculations released by Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions Budget Committee staff …
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Sex Trafficking in the Spotlight

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

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

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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

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Health Decisions Recognized by CIO Magazine as a CIO 100 Award Honoree

Health Decisions Recognized by CIO Magazine as a CIO 100 Award Honoree

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"The award represents independent validation of our technology-leveraged approach to running clinical trials based on immediate, actionable information from the field," said Michael Rosenberg, MD, MPH, Health Decisions' CEO. "That principle makes our …
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'Crack Baby' Crisis Not Overblown

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Harry Themal: Herlihy to Preside Over State's Pioneer Drug Court

Harry Themal: Herlihy to preside over state's pioneer Drug Court

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The Drug Court, created largely through the efforts of Goldstein and former Judge Richard Gebelein, evaluates whether defendants are amenable to treatment within the correction system or in a number of other programs. They are then closely supervised.
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Nevada psychiatric hospital's busing of mental patients was disturbing to workers

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No Compassion

No compassion

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She's on her ninth chemo drug, and it's stopped working, says Dr. Marin Xavier, Reid's oncologist. … In 2008, after a disgruntled employee tipped them off, the San Diego and Carlsbad police departments launched an investigation of Reid's business …
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US FDA approves Janssen Biotech 's Simponi for treatment of ulcerative colitis

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Rising Tide of Substance Abuse Engulfing Youth

Rising tide of substance abuse engulfing youth

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But, awareness campaigns and free camps organised by the hospital had yielded encouraging results with most of the addicts being admitted here for de-addiction, he said. On addiction, he said: "People resort to drugs to get momentary relief from …
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Knoxville fights substance abuse during National Prevention Week

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