IADDA, Sara Feigenholtz Push for 5¢ a Drink Alcohol Tax Increase
IADDA, Sara Feigenholtz Push for 5¢ a Drink Alcohol Tax Increase – (Springfield, IL) — Illinois leading addiction prevention, treatment and mental health advocates today unveiled legislation at a Springfield press conferenc…
King's 'Dream' still inspires 50 years later
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Speaker after speaker took to the podium: John Lewis, national chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; Walter Reuther, president of the AFL-CIO; Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of …
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Should Ohio Have Epinephrine in Schools?
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Yet many school districts don't keep the drug in stock. "We only keep the ones for kids that have food allergies so about 8-10 kids," said Mary Barnett of the Ohio Association of School Nurses agrees that's not enough. Right now Ohio law only allows …
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Why psychotherapy's a 'bust' despite the evidence
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Psychotherapy has issues. In a system of medicine and health insurance that rewards evidence-based practice and looks upon biology as a more rigorous science, psychotherapy has lost ground among physicians, insurers, and policymakers. (Credit: …
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Controversy over DSM-5: new mental health guide
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… 2013 amid a storm of controversy and bitter criticism. Fourteen years in the writing (and according to one psychiatrist, “thick enough to stop a bullet”) the fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association's “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual …
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