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Firms Help Native Americans Grow Cannabis

Native American tribes are often recognized for their success within the casino business and the tobacco industry. Over the past decade, as cannabis has become more accepted as a medical treatment, the industry has grown exponentially. In some places, where legal recreational cannabis use exists, there have been fears of the market flooding with all […]

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Years Later, Vietnam Vets Suffer from Rare Cancer

DANVILLE, Calif. — Mike Baughman considered himself one of the lucky ones, returning from Vietnam without any major injuries or psychological scars. But after falling ill nearly a half-century later, he found out he did not escape the war after all. The 64-year-old is among hundreds of veterans who have been diagnosed with a rare […]

60 Minutes to Trump: What Will You Do with Obamacare?

Today I watched CBS’ Leslie Stahl interview President-elect Donald Trump on the 60 Minutes YouTube live stream that had a viewer chat window on the side. While I tried to ignore everyone cursing at each other and sending racist epithets, sexist and sexual comments, and swastikas to each other, here’s what Trump said on his […]

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Minorities Face Barriers to Mental Health Care

A recent report from the CDC revealed the urgent state of mental health in this country: From 1999 to 2014, the age-adjusted suicide rate in the U.S. jumped by 24 percent. Suicides rose for both men and women across all ages 10 to 74. The United States is facing serious mental health challenges. And if […]

Clinical Pharmacists Provide Veterans Primary Care

Veterans Affairs is now using clinical pharmacists to handle up to one-quarter of primary care appointments to combat wait times at some medical centers. Last year, VA implemented changes that allowed clinical pharmacists to handle primary care for many veterans at select facilities. The push is reportedly in an effort not to increase healthcare quality […]

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Study: Prescribe Anti-Overdose Drug With Opioids

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Prescribing an anti-overdose drug at the same time as opioid painkillers can help prevent overdose deaths, according to researchers at the University of New Mexico. Researchers studied 164 patients at the UNM Pain Center for a year and published their findings in the journal Substance Abuse in April, The Albuquerque Journal eported. […]

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Food Addict Loses 500 Pounds

INDIALANTIC, Fla. — Fred Riley guesses that he weighed 750 pounds at his heaviest, unhealthiest point. But that’s just an estimate: The scale built into his hospital bed only measured objects up to 700 pounds. The morbidly obese Indiana resident with congestive heart failure spent a decade laying on a jumbo leather recliner, wearing a […]

Judge Offers Mentally Ill a Lifeline

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Before he entered mental health court, Kevin had worked out what he considered to be an unspoken agreement with the criminal justice system. In exchange for using illegal drugs to escape his demons, Kevin — who did not want to use his real name — would spend part of the year behind […]

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Blacks Were Encouraged to Buy Tainted Homes

TAMPA, Fla. — Sulfurous fumes seep from the walls of Valentine Hendrix’s home, slowly attacking her appliances and light fixtures, her lungs and sinuses. It’s been that way for almost nine years. In 2008, Hendrix’s family was one of 12 poor black families encouraged by the Tampa Housing Authority to become first-time home buyers in […]

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Trial Focuses on Deadly Police Response

NEW YORK — When Kenneth Chamberlain Sr.’s medical alert pendant accidentally went off five years ago, the 68-year-old told police who showed up that he was fine, barred them from entering his apartment and repeatedly asked them to go away. They didn’t. That set off a tense, 90-minute standoff that ended with the mentally ill, […]

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Obamacare: The Good and the Bad

In this interview, I mentioned the information a broker in Naples Florida sent me regarding some of their customers buying Obamacare compliant individual health insurance. Here are the broker’s 2017 examples: Family of four, mom and dad age 40, two kids. Lowest Bronze annual premium $13,176. Deductible $7,150 single, $14,300 family. Income $130,000. Not eligible […]

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LSU: No Medical Marijuana Before 2018

BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana State University’s planned medical marijuana growing operation doesn’t expect patients seeking the drug to have access until the summer of 2018, at the earliest. Bill Richardson, LSU’s vice president for agriculture, led an AgCenter forum Friday to update the public, including potential contractors and business partners, about plans to start […]

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