Sannicandro: Rethinking drugs and incarceration
Alternatively, his admission to a treatment facility would have been a fraction of the cost. The annual cost of incarcerating an inmate in Massachusetts is about $ 48,000, while the cost of treatment is $ 10,000. For nonviolent drug offenders the …
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Opiate epidemic exacts deadly toll
We don't want to start a witch hunt against prescription painkillers, which have promoted treatment and alleviated a lot of unnecessary suffering for many people, including cancer patients. Making these drugs inaccessible by overregulating them would …
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Health Guides Work To Convince Native Americans To Try Obamacare
The man still has medical bills from when the IHS referred him to Christus St. Vincent Hospital in Santa Fe and, he says, refused to cover the cost of treatment for a cut to his head suffered during a fall. It falls to guides like Lujan to convince …
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