'Broken' Mental-Health System Made a Few Improvements This Year

'Broken' mental-health system made a few improvements this year

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Obamacare outlawed annual or lifetime dollar limits on 10 “essential” health benefits, including mental-health and substance-abuse treatment. … We have federal barriers that block treatment, federal dollars that go to grants for programs that do not …
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Five pressing health priorities in 2014

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There are now organisms out there that are resistant, potentially, to all the drugs that we have. And they're spreading. We need to scale up the work that … Reducing deaths attributable to prescription painkiller abuse and overdose. This has been one …
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Viewpoint: Don't put people in prison when they need treatment

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These people, our sons, daughters, brothers and sisters who suffer pain-prescription-drug-medication addictions can more economically be counseled and treated, as opposed to being warehoused in our prisons and labeled convicted felons. State Reps.
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