Officials Support Medicaid Changes

Published April 3, 2013

Officials support Medicaid changes

Filed under: drug rehab treatment methods

… need for Medicaid expansion, saying the sheriff's department continues to address more cases involving suicides and overdoses in Ross County stemming from drug abuse. He added there isn't money available for people who needed help to get treatment.
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Mississippi lawmakers OK restrictions on abortion drugs, headed to governor

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Felicia Brown-Williams, director of Public Policy for Planned Parenthood Southeast, urged Bryant to veto the bill. "Women don't turn to politicians for advice about mammograms, prenatal care, or cancer treatments," Brown-Williams said. "Politicians …
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Laser Light Zaps Away Cocaine Addiction

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“When we turn on a laser light in the prelimbic region of the prefrontal cortex, the compulsive cocaine seeking is gone,” said Antonello Bonci, MD, scientific director of the intramural research program at the NIH's National Institute on Drug Abuse …
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Pfizer Recalls Thyroid-Disorder Drug Over Odor Problem

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Pfizer Inc. (PFE) has recalled about 52,000 bottles of thyroid-disease treatment Levoxyl because of complaints of uncharacteristic odors in some bottles. Pfizer stopped shipping the drug in February after learning of the odor problem, and may not have …
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