Former U.S. Secretaries of Health, Surgeons General, Directors of Centers for …
Former U.S. Secretaries of Health, Surgeons General, Directors of Centers for …
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Today the Citizens' Commission released a new report, Time to Ban Menthol, written for the Commission by CASAColumbia®, The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, and funded with a grant from Legacy®, the nation's …
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Doctors are top source of prescription drugs for chronic abusers
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Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which conducted the study, said the research showed the need for greater focus on doctors who are "problem prescribers." The study, published Monday by the Journal of the …
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Successful 'Mental Health Home' Requires New Way of Thinking
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The center's street medicine program sends psychiatric staff out with medical staff from a nearby federally qualified health center to help homeless people and people with mental illness, including substance abuse. More recently, a primary care doctor …
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