CULTURE WARS

CULTURE WARS

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More than 600,000 troops have returned from tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan with traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, resulting in increased rates of drug abuse, alcoholism, domestic violence, chronic depression and …
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Review: 'Nurse Jackie' doesn't go for the big laughs – Sioux City Journal

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"Nurse Jackie" needs to take a similar approach — particularly now — to her drug addiction. In the opener, one doctor exits, another enters. The new ER leader (played by a gruff Morris Chesnut) suffers no one but could become a key ally. And then?
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Siddha doctors asked to apply for identity cards before May 31

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Mr. Rajendran described some simple herbal medical preparations that could be prepared at home and taken by the people for treatment of various diseases such as sinus, piles, gastric problems, skin diseases and joint pain, and for drug de-addiction.
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Methadone treatment raises questions about profit motive, patient care

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Methadone treatment is seen by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and others as an intervention that helps addicts get their lives back. One advocate who's taken a daily dose of the drug for more than 40 years says methadone saved her life.
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