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Four Years After Passage of Obamacare, Health Care System Remains in Crisis
Four years after passage of Obamacare, health care system remains in crisis
Regardless of how you view the overall merits, regulatory strictures, or societal costs of Obamacare, consider these facts: —In the United States, health care spending eats up nearly 18 percent … That statistic is echoed in the infant mortality rate …
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Homicides up in District, ending five years of declines; killings drop in …
But it casts light on a persistent crime problem in one area of the city — along the volatile border with Maryland — where most of the Washington area's killings occur and often get the least attention. Spencer — who was 4 … The statistics for …
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What Kind of Salary Can an LCSW in Texas Expect?
Question by Andy: What Kind Of Salary Can an LCSW in Texas Expect?
I’m currently a 23 year old male graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin. I’m doing the Masters of Social Work program in order to allow me to earn an LCSW after I graduate. My ultimate career goal is to have a private practice, working primarily with people with mood disorders, drug issues, and perhaps couples therapy.
What kind of salary can I expect out of the gate? Ten years from now? Anyone have any general advice they’d like to share? It’s all appreciated, thank you!
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Answer by DS
http://www1.salary.com/TX/Licensed-Clinical-Social-Worker-salary.html
http://www.indeed.com/salary/q-Master-Social-Worker-Lmsw-Lcsw-l-Texas.html
http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Licensed_Clinical_Social_Worker_(LCSW)/Salary
B.C. Struggles With How to Treat the Most Severe of Mentally Ill Drug Addicts
B.C. struggles with how to treat the most severe of mentally ill drug addicts
Such are the hallucinations and paranoia felt by those with a stimulant drug addiction. Sometimes the substance abuse is so severe it causes neurological damage and psychosis becomes a chronic condition. Combine untreated addiction with homelessness and physical health problems, and you get a health emergency. Vancouver police and the region's health authorities are desperately trying to figure … Causes of Drug Abuse – Yahoo News Search Results
Troubled launch of 'Obamacare' tops health news for 2013
As 2013 nears to a close, the year's top health news story — the fumbled debut of the Affordable Care Act, often dubbed Obamacare — continues to grab headlines. Causes of Drug Abuse – Yahoo News Search Results
Adolescent Substance Abuse Is Focus of Dec. 16 Forum at Hartford High School
Adolescent Substance Abuse Is Focus of Dec. 16 Forum At Hartford High School
The discussion will cover the substances being used in the community, warning signs of adolescent drug use and resources available to address adolescent substance abuse. Students and adults are encouraged to take part. Child care will be provided.
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What Does It Take to Prevent Youth Substance Abuse?
What Does It Take to Prevent Youth Substance Abuse? – Teen alcohol and drug use has long been a problem of great concern to parents, teachers, students, and community leaders. EDC’s six-year effort with 11 great…
Parent-Sanctioned Teen Drinking Parties Persist Despite Laws, Officials Say
… very serious consequences to serving alcohol or allowing them to drink alcohol on their property," said Jill Spineti, president and CEO of the Governor's Prevention Partnership, which works to prevent underage drinking and drug abuse, among other …
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Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine says Rhode Island's teen binge …
Two federal agencies that track teenage alcohol use, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, define binge drinking as having five or more drinks at the same occasion, at the same …
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What Is the History Behind Barbiturates?
Question by Kenneth: what is the history behind barbiturates?
we are making a slide show in my health class, and I need to know the history behind the drug barbiturates.
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Answer by Dr. KLD
Barbiturates are drugs that act as central nervous system depressants, and can therefore produce a wide spectrum of effects, from mild sedation to total anesthesia. They are also effective as anxiolytics, as hypnotics, and as anticonvulsants. Barbiturates also have analgesic effects, however these effects are somewhat weak, preventing barbiturates from being used in surgery in the absence of other analgesics. They have addiction potential, both physical and psychological. Barbiturates have now largely been replaced by benzodiazepines in routine medical practice – for example, in the treatment of anxiety and insomnia – mainly because benzodiazepines are significantly less dangerous in overdose. However, barbiturates are still used in general anesthesia, for epilepsy, and assisted suicide. Barbiturates are derivatives of barbituric acid.