Uninsured, Providers Urge Expanding Medicaid

Uninsured, providers urge expanding Medicaid

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A number of residents of Phoenix House, a drug rehabilitation facility in Dublin, told the House committee they can't afford the ongoing treatment they need to keep them from spiraling back into alcohol or drug addiction. ''I'm asking, better yet, I'm …
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Drug charity Black and Asian Cultural Identification of Narcotics celebrates …

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A CHARITY helping people beat drink and drug problems which had to fight back from losing key funding has celebrated its tenth birthday. Bac-in – Black and Asian Cultural Identification of Narcotics – was set up in 2003 by Sohan Sahota after he …
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Helping Afghanistan forgotten drug addicts

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Afghanistan is the world's number one producer of opium poppies, and consumption is also a big problem there. More than a million Afghans are drug addicts, and the UN says only 10 percent of them have had any treatment. Al Jazeera's Jennifer Glasse …
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