The LGBT Health Movement, 40 Years Since Homosexuality Was a Mental Illness

The LGBT Health Movement, 40 Years Since Homosexuality Was a Mental Illness

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He recalled that the earliest attempt to include data on LGBT citizens, in the 1990 Hate Crimes Statistics Act, was "vehemently opposed" by rabidly anti-gay Senator Jesse Helms and his counterpart in the House, Rep. William Dannemayer. "They didn't …
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Washington heroin use, deaths increase, especially among young people

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Banta-Green found the largest increases in heroin use and abuse in Washington state were outside of metropolitan areas, where drug treatment and awareness are lowest. Overdose deaths from heroin or related prescription drugs more than doubled … Banta …
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Westmoreland County drug overdose deaths on pace to surpass 2012 record by

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Drug overdose deaths in the county have increased steadily in the past decade, statistics show. In 2002, the coroner's office recorded 22 … 28, 2013, looking at victims' mental and physical health historie, and any prior drug treatment. “We want to …
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