Parity Laws Boost Drug Abuse Treatment

Parity Laws Boost Drug Abuse Treatment

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Rates of substance abuse treatment increased when states enacted so-called parity legislation barring insurers from limiting coverage of it more strictly than for other conditions, researchers said. Treatment rates … The researchers' comprehensive …
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Yoga therapy healing drug addiction

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Designed for women inmates, statistics show less than 20 per cent of probationers who underwent rehabilitation treatment return to drug use once leaving the yoga-focused rehab programme, while those sentenced to jail are more vulnerable to relapse …
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SFN Meeting Previews Clinical Neuro Advances

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With more than 15,000 abstracts slated for presentation, statistics alone would suggest that new treatments and diagnostics entering the clinic 5-10 years from now will have had some of their earliest studies reported at the conference, which is …
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Frederick County health officials announce plan to battle overdose trends

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“I can tell you, from my personal experience of 30 years in the fire and rescue service, it doesn't have a name and it doesn't have a face and doesn't have a color,” he said of addiction. “We are the first line of treatment, we're out in the street, we …
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