Kasich: I'm Not Giving Up on Medicaid Expansion
Kasich: I'm not giving up on Medicaid expansion
Filed under: drug addiction treatment act
Kasich told an Ohio AARP luncheon Tuesday that expanding the health care program under the federal Affordable Care Act is needed to help those struggling with drug addiction, mental illness or job loss. … Heroin addiction, he said, “was something we …
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Mental health plan for Kent approved
Filed under: drug addiction treatment act
Ireland said the state is switching to “a new behavioral healthcare financing model” and combining the Mental Hygiene Administration with the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Administration. That plan is … Also, she said the state insurance exchange set up by …
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Everything You Think You Know About Addiction Is Wrong
Filed under: drug addiction treatment act
With the passage of the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act 1914, addiction got taken out of the hands of doctors, Sheff explains, and “put into the hands of the police and the justice system. Since then, we've had a war on drugs and treated addiction as a …
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LETTER: No proof background checks will work
Filed under: drug addiction treatment act
Do you know and can you assure that the data base will contain the names with all pertinent information of all convicted violent felons, all mentally unstable people who have the tendency to do harm to themselves and others, and drug addicts who have …
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