Counties Reduce Spending on Mental Health Services

Counties reduce spending on mental health services

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Over the last five years, counties such as Broome, Tompkins and Chemung saw cuts in mental health spending, according to the New York State Comptroller's Office. • Broome County saw a $ 1.5 million decrease between 2007 and 2011 … Broome County spent …
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Second Circuit Vacates Off-Label Promotion Conviction on First Amendment

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According to the opinion, the allegations against Caronia centered on his promotion of the drug, Xyrem, which was approved in July 2002 to treat narcolepsy patients who experience cataplexy. The drug's label contained a boxed warning stating that …
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What 'Health Care Costs' Really Means

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Her writing also appears in The New York Times Magazine and The New Republic. Joe Colucci is a program associate in the New America Foundation's … To take just one of any number of examples, elective angioplasty (surgery to reopen narrowed blood …
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Judge oversees courts for the down, but not out

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Tynan was a public defender known as "Father Mike" for trying to guide troubled souls into Alcoholics Anonymous and other programs when he signed on to start an innovative drug treatment program with a $ 600,000 federal grant. That was 18 years ago …
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