More Than 16K Addicts to Be Eligible for Insurance
More than 16K addicts to be eligible for insurance
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Right now, 23,000 Utah residents are receiving substance abuse treatment. But more than 16,000 people with drug and alcohol addictions are expected to be newly eligible for insurance in 2014 once the health care law takes effect, federal statistics show.
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How will strong-willed city deal with liquor and drug problem?
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They're called concurrent disorders in professional terms, but what it means is that an alcoholic may quite easily be dealing with not only the liquor addiction, but also a drug addiction and mental health issues. Availability of drugs is a factor. “It …
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For the U.S. military, a baffling rise in suicides
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Deployment and exposure to combat can act as catalysts that worsen existing problems in a service member's life, like drug abuse, or cause new ones, like post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injuries, which might contribute to suicidal …
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New cancer tools allow patients to reconsider chemo
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Such targeted cancer drugs, which sometimes preclude the need for chemotherapy, are being sold by companies ranging from Pfizer Inc, the world's largest drugmaker, to Ariad Pharmaceuticals Inc, which early this year launched its first drug, to treat …
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