Morning Memo: Tax plan takeaways, full day at legislature

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SWEEPING ABORTION BILLS MAKES PROGRESS: Parents would have to give their teenagers permission before they could receive birth control or be treated for sexually transmitted diseases, substance abuse or mental illness, under a bill approved in a House …
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No One Is Abandoning the DSM, but It Is Almost Time to Transform It

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Others may investigate the neurobiology of hallucinations, disruptions in circadian rhythms, or precisely how drug addiction rewires the brain.” RDoC is not a brand new development—it began in 2009—and it will continue for at least another decade. In …
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I BEAT DEPRESSION: A former Laker talks about how he escaped the darkest …

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Now, after obtaining a journalism degree, he does communications work for the Canadian Mental Health Association. While he doesn't do clinical work in his role, he's confident he'll find ways to give back. Recently, at a … When asked about how his …
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Hospitals Should Require Drug And Alcohol Tests For Physicians – The Inquisitr

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In the event a physician is either caught or willfully acquiesces to treatment for some manner of substance abuse they receive a level of rehabilitation that supersedes the average person. According to a report published in the Journal of Addiction and …
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