Drug Abuse

Hawaii lawmakers weigh bills on mental health and drug abuse services for at …
HONOLULU — Four of every five teens who appear in Judge R. Mark Browning's family court, he told Hawaii lawmakers Friday, abuse some sort of substance: alcohol, cocaine, heroin, gasoline, cold medicine or "a number of other things you've never heard …
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Smoky Mountain Appoints Leaders For Medicaid Mental Health, Substance …
Feb. 21, 2014. Smoky Mountain Center (SMC), Western North Carolina's largest managed care organization for publicly funded mental health, substance abuse and developmental disability services, is pleased to announce three major new appointments that …
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MVP settles after mental health parity law violations
The settlement also requires the health insurance plan — which has more than 500,000 members in the Albany region, Central New York and the Hudson Valley — to submit previously denied mental health and substance abuse treatment claims for …
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