Should Mentally Ill Patients Be Allowed to Smoke?

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Quitting smoking is hard enough on its own, but studies show the challenge is even greater if you suffer from a mental illness — which is why many treatment facilities still allow patients to smoke, even encouraging the habit by using cigarettes as a …
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In Twin Cities, heroin treatment on the rise

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Just more than 21 percent of patients who were admitted to Twin Cities treatment sites during the first half of 2012 needed treatment for heroin or other opiates, such as prescription painkillers like oxycodone and hydrocodone. That's up from about 5 …
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Got raw milk? Health debate continues over non-pasteurized dairy product

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But their purchase is not weapons or drugs. It's milk. … But while Tennessee raw milk producers have little interaction with government over their businesses, a Minnesota producer and others have found themselves in court, even where state law …
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Rosenblum: Parents' pain helps shift prescription drug awareness

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In 2005, Steve was prescribed narcotic painkillers and the anti-anxiety drug clonazepam. His family watched their gregarious son and brother start slipping away. In 2010, he checked into the Pain Rehabilitation Center at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester …
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