Brien counselor wins national award

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In Atlanta on Oct. 13, NAADAC, a national association for addiction professionals, named Sugden the Lora Roe Memorial Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselor of the Year. It comes just months after she was named the addiction counselor of the year … "By …
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Solving Opioid Addiction Crisis: No Silver Bullet

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In an interview before a town hall discussion on the topic at the American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence, McClellan explained why a multi-faceted approach to the problem is the only way to curb this epidemic. "You don't have any …
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Personhood In The Womb: A Constitutional Question

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GROSS: One of the types of cases that you're seeing is a pregnant woman is arrested or detained and forced to undergo drug treatment because she's being accused of using drugs, illegal drugs that might damage the fetus. Give us an example of that. In …
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Medicare's failure to track doctors wastes billions on brand-name drugs

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Doctors typically find that generics such as simvastatin, the most-prescribed drug in Part D, work well to treat the risks from artery-clogging cholesterol. Crestor is usually reserved for stubborn cases … In June, the HHS inspector general issued a …
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