Update: check out Part Two and Part Three of the Crystal Meth Series of posts The Christian Science Monitor had a article on the meth epidemic. A recent survey of 500 law-enforcement agencies by the National Association of Counties finds that 87 percent have seen increases in meth-related arrests in the past three years. Most […]
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From the Daily Yomiuri. “According to a survey by the Japanese ministry, only 13 of the 182 child-counseling centers nationwide have a child psychologist on staff.” In the US there are apparently 6,000 specialists in Autism while in Japan there are 300. I have a friend in Japan where I used to live for 3
Brooke Shields in a New York Time op ed piece criticizes Tom Cruise’s ” ridiculous rant” against her using medication and therapy for her postpartum depression. To suggest that I was wrong to take drugs to deal with my depression, and that instead I should have taken vitamins and exercised shows an utter lack of
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As I said I’d do in a previous post, Here’s the contact information for the Minister of Health in BC and the provincial drug plan. I hope to get the contact info from other provinces soon. So if you live in BC and think that BC Pharmacare should cover the long term ADD medications like
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Pfizer chairman and CEO said that he’ll be submitting Ads to the FDA (link disappeared) for preview. Last week Bristol-Myers Squibb became the first major drug firm to not advertise their new drugs to consumers in a product’s first year on the market. Some people say that’s not enough. Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reporters, said