Outpatient commitment bill spurs strong response

Outpatient commitment bill spurs strong response

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BOSTON — Lawmakers seeking to establish an outpatient commitment program for people with severe mental illness encountered a skeptical committee chairwoman on Tuesday. Sen. Ken Donnelly, an Arlington … Social worker Lynn Nanos told the Committee on …
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IDEMA: Mental illness and the loss of community

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Regardless of the reasons for a divorce, and there are some good ones (e.g., physical abuse, adultery, drug addiction), the psychic damage to all concerned can be horrific. The family unit is the building block of … The greatest challenge for the …
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London uses van with X-ray machine to find TB

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''We kind of took our eye off the ball and now TB has become a big problem again,'' said Dr. Alistair Story, who runs the mobile TB van for University College London Hospitals. He said the vast majority of TB in the U.K. is among the homeless, drug …
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