Free drugs for children with HIV give them chance at a normal life

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Zhao, who is deputy director of the center's AIDS treatment and care division, told China Daily that 3,400 children suffering from HIV/AIDS had received free antiretroviral treatment on the Chinese mainland by the end of 2012, and the program appears …
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County receives drug court grant

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The federal government has awarded a grant to Cheshire County for nearly $ 1 million to expand its drug court program, which opened in June and aims to put felony drug offenders into treatment instead of prison. County officials announced Wednesday …
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After A-Rod

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If, as expected, the other players agree to serve fifty-game suspensions (the minimum for first-time P.E.D. violations under baseball's Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program), it only shores up the league's case against Rodriguez, by providing …
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Comment and Debate: Unmet need for addiction treatment is real

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For treatment to work, it must be available in a timely way. Suggestions that we shouldn't take the waitlists at Maple Leaf Farm and elsewhere seriously because there is a vacancy at some other program are ludicrous. If owners of Valley Vista, a for …
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