Why America's Addiction Treatment System Is Broken & What You Can Do

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Why America's Addiction Treatment System Is Broken & What You Can Do We know a lot about addiction. We know that addiction is a complex brain disease – not a weakness or lack of willpower. We know its risk factors include “genetic predisposition …
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How Well Do We Really Understand Mental lllness?

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But I didn't feel like I was discharging her to a treatment plan that had a high likelihood of preventing the same exact situation from happening over and over again, as it already had. It comes down to how we, as a community, should treat the mentally …
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Ted Yoho, GOP Congressman, Says Obamacare Tanning Tax Is 'Racist'

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At a Saturday town hall meeting in Gainesville, Fla., Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla.) discussed his conversation with House Speaker John Boehner about a provision in the Affordable Care Act that he considered to be "racist": the plan's 10 percent tax on tanning …
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