Co-authored by Kirsten Harris

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Under Reagan's leadership, Nancy Reagan implored nice middle-class white kids to “just say no” to drugs while the inner city slums, inhabited by the disenfranchised black population, expanded at an outstanding rate. The drug of choice in these slums …
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Some Americans aren't getting the right medicines, study finds

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And for osteoporosis drugs, the rates were lower everywhere. The National Committee for Quality Assurance, a non-profit group that advocates for good health care, suggests that anyone with osteoporosis who breaks a bone should get drugs to stop the …
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Ohio judge tries drug to rehabilitate addicted inmates

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Statistics from the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services show that 36 percent of people treated with naltrexone stayed opiate-free, compared with 20 percent to 50 percent who used the replacement narcotic suboxone and 60 percent for …
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