Tobacco Use by Teens in Treatment
Tobacco use by Teens in Treatment – Dr. Myers interest in cigarette use in youths started when he was treating teens in treatment for substance abuse and found that about 90% of them smoked. Wh…
Successful 'Mental Health Home' Requires New Way of Thinking
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Moving to a medical home care model for people with mental illness means aligning the interests of clinicians and patients, not an easy prospect when care is fragmented and patients have complex problems, said Mark Ragins, M.D., medical director at the …
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Court cases
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1, 2013; sentence – restrictive treatment program for 23 months, with the first 15 months on home monitoring and the first 90 days on SCRAM monitoring; 18-month license suspension and 12-month ignition interlock, 100 hours of community service and $ 1 …
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The High Cost of Rare Disease Drugs
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The perennial pet peeve about pricing resurfaced earlier this month, when BioMarin Pharmaceutical disclosed the $ 380,000 cost of a year's treatment with its new drug Vimizim™ (elosulfase alfa). The first … Also, the number of rare diseases cases for …
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