Marijuana Grandmother Gets Statewide Support

Marijuana Grandmother Gets Statewide Support – A Mansfield grandmother indicted for growing marijuana for medicinal purposes has gained support from two state organizations. Susan L. Stevens, 62, was arra…

Wonkbook: Doctors for higher health-care costs!

Filed under: drug addiction treatment act of 2000

Identifying the problem is easy. Doing anything about it is hard. But there's one thing states can do that isn't particularly hard: Allow more nurse practitioners — who charge much less than doctors — to treat patients directly, without a physician's …
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The Case Against Drugs in Chiropractic (Part 2)

Filed under: drug addiction treatment act of 2000

Editor's note: This three-part article makes the case against the inclusion of drug prescriptive rights for doctors of chiropractic. Throughout this article, Dr. Klapp refers to this effort to take chiropractic down the path of prescriptive rights as …
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Stabenow speaks on mental health

Filed under: drug addiction treatment act of 2000

The goal of the Excellence in Mental Health Act is to help mental health centers meet new accountability standards and offer services like 24-hour crisis psychiatric services and integrated treatment for mental illness and substance abuse. Stabenow …
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'Ford Nation' is bigger than you think

Filed under: drug addiction treatment act of 2000

He hangs out with drug dealers, and — if reports of a video showing him smoking crack cocaine are reliable — he has a drug problem. … The only candidate to match him on city-wide support was the great sophisticate Mel Lastman, in his 2000 re-election.
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