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A Reminder That Addiction Is An Illness, Not A Character Flaw

A Reminder That Addiction Is An Illness, Not A Character Flaw

Demi Lovato is just one example of how the condition is a chronic health issue. (Source: Healthy Living – The Huffington Post)MedWorm Message: Have you tried our new medical search engine? More powerful than before. Log on with your social media account. 100% free.
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Clean, Sober and $41,000 Deep in Out-of-Pocket Addiction Recovery Costs

People recovering from opioid addiction and their families discuss the financial and emotional costs of treatment. (Source: NYT Health)
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Federal parity and spending for mental illness – Kennedy-Hendricks A, Epstein AJ, Stuart EA, Haffajee RL, McGinty EE, Busch AB, Huskamp HA, Barry CL.

BACKGROUND: Families of children with mental health conditions face heavy economic burdens. One of the objectives of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) is to reduce the financial burden for those with intensive mental health service… (Source: SafetyLit)
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Hazardous drinking has unique relationships with implicit and explicit drinking identity – Montes KS, Olin CC, Teachman BA, Baldwin SA, Lindgren KP.

Measures of drinking identity are predictive of hazardous drinking. The extent to which hazardous drinking is differentially related to implicit compared to explicit drinking identity is not well understood. Neurocognitive models of addiction indicate that… (Source: SafetyLit)
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Commentary: Expanding access to chiropractic care is a win for Missouri

In early July, Gov. Mike Parson signed a bill into law that allows chiropractic to be covered by Medicaid in Missouri. Starting in late August, the roughly one million Medicaid patients in Missouri will have access to a nonpharmacologic, proven treatment for chronic pain that doesn ’t carry a risk of addiction.

As head of chiropractic at CareSTL, a federally qualified health center formerly kno
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