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Drugs. Alcohol. Addiction – Part 1 of 5 – Dr. Mark Blair did it all while continuing to treat patients. But after hitting rock bottom in 2008, he turned his life around and went on to educate and war…

Raided Florence doctor's medical license suspended
Citing the death of two patients from drug overdoses along with “substandard medical decision-making and judgment” and “irresponsible and substandard prescribing of controlled substances,” the Montana Board of Medical Examiners indefinitely suspended …
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Scant evidence to claim that school dollars would go to Medicaid expansion
Expansion also would broaden Medicaid services for mental health and substance abuse. That would require money to be … So the GOP tweet has a grain of truth but ignores critical facts that would give people a different impression. We rate it Mostly …
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Are you likely to suffer from kidney disease? Here are 11 common risk factors
Drug abuse/drug overdose: Inappropriate use of drugs or prescription and over-the-counter medicines can lead to neprotoxicity. All medicines you take have to go through the filtration process of the kidneys. Overdose of drugs can cause may result in …
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STEPHENSON: Nova Scotia doctors need to confront prescription drug abuse
In 2010, drug overdoses overtook motor vehicle fatalities as the leading cause of injury death in the United States. In a 2013 report, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said of the 38,000 people who died that year from overdoses, 78 per …
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Miscarriage: Signs, Symptoms & Causes
The only behavioral risks that can increase miscarriage are smoking, heavy alcohol use, illicit drug abuse and heavy caffeine use. … Severe chronic illnesses, like uncontrolled diabetes, immunologic diseases, or thyroid disease, can also increase the …
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Painkiller abuse to blame for three quarters of drug overdoses, UAE doctors say
Dr Ali Al Marzooqi, the centre's director of public health and research, recently described the increase in the number of young people using drugs as “alarming”, with those as young as 12 being among the some 1,000 patients admitted to NRC outpatients …
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FDA approves device to reverse opioid overdose
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a hand-held auto-injector device to reverse opioid overdose. "Overdose and death resulting from misuse and abuse of both prescription and illicit opioids has become a major public health concern in the …
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'Epipen for addicts' proposed to fight prescription drug overdoses
High-ranking medical officials, police and educators are preparing to unveil new guidelines in Hamilton to curb prescription drug misuse, including the proposed use of a type of “Epipen for addicts" called prophylactic Naloxone. Prescription Drug Abuse – Yahoo News Search Results

Mindfulness in policing: Hillsboro cops forge revolutionary path with …
… is the first step in mitigating that,” he said. “The awareness of your emotions causes you to pause and make better decisions, which is pretty critical when you think about the kind of work we do.” … See the same child being abused. Watch the …
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Poverty and Income Inequality
My humble observation is that most long-term poverty is caused by self-sabotage by individuals. Drug use. Drunkenness. Having children without a family structure. Gambling. Poor work habits. Disastrously unfortunate appearance. Above all, and counted …
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National Safety Council releases report on top injury causes
The CDC points to “a growing, deadly epidemic of prescription painkiller abuse,” with three out of four prescription drug overdoses caused by painkillers, also called opioid pain relievers. More than three out of four people who misuse these …
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In Our Neighborhoods: Drug overdoses soaring; response should equal problem
Late in the 1970s, I worked for a non-profit group in Washington, D.C. When I announced that I was pregnant with my first child, my boss said something like, “Enjoy your last few months of solid sleep, because you will never sleep the same way again …
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To New Bethany and back: One woman's journey to report the man she says …
They had been emailing and messaging for months about this trip, about trying in whatever way they could to support Halter in her quest to make a police report about the abuse she says she suffered at New Bethany. New Bethany School For … Besides …
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