When Doctors Discriminate

When Doctors Discriminate

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Less mysterious is the weight gain associated with most of the drugs used to treat bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, which can easily snowball into diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and cardiovascular disease. … As a result, many of …
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The presence of all colors gives you black

Filed under: drug addiction treatment act

The solution is simple, macro not micro. End the lost war on drugs and stop having government act as a price support system for the abuse business. Invest in treatment to reduce the customer base. Cut the War Department budget and plow the money into …
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Why Violence Works

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Images of the violence unleashed enormous sympathy for the civil-rights cause and helped lay the groundwork for the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which sent an army of federal law-enforcement officials into the South with the power to suppress white …
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Dramas seem tailor made for screen — and that's problematic

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Other crucial moments in the play, about the struggles of a recovering young drug addict who has returned to her affluent Houston, Texas, home, demons intact (including memories of how Houston treated the New Orleans refugees of Hurricane Katrina), are …
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