Patrick Kennedy No Fan of Marijuana Plan
Patrick Kennedy no fan of marijuana plan
Filed under: drug addiction treatment act
He was the main sponsor of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act — which aimed to require insurance to cover mental health and substance abuse treatment the way it covers physical illness. Kennedy said his interest in fighting medical …
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CNN/CIR rehab fraud investigation spurs lawmakers into action
Filed under: drug addiction treatment act
(CNN) — A California lawmaker has scheduled a hearing to examine disclosures of significant fraud in taxpayer-funded drug rehabilitation by The Center for Investigative Reporting and CNN. Dr. Richard Pan, chairman of the Assembly Health Committee …
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Navy medic Darren Cole sentenced for drug dealing
Filed under: drug addiction treatment act
He has now racked up a string of jail sentences for drugs and weapons offences that were fuelled by his own addiction to ice. In sentencing the former seaman, Acting Judge Geoff Graham accepted that Cole used ice as a "self-medicating" treatment to …
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Jangled Voices Over the 'Deportation' of Anambra Indigenes
Filed under: drug addiction treatment act
The Lagos State government have continued to argue that the deportees where Anambra indigenes who were rounded up on Lagos streets as hoodlums, ex-convicts and drug addicts who had wanted to go home to reunite with their families. These species of …
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