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Barbiturates Defined

A group of sedatives that reduce activity in the brain; are habit-forming and are possibly fatal when taken with alcohol

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New Law That Delays Medicare Physician Payment Cut Also Affects Beneficiaries

Published July 18, 2008, 1:10 pm, Medical News Today

The new Medicare law that passed on Tuesday not only delays for 18 months a 10.6% reduction to physician fees, it also contains provisions that directly affect beneficiaries, the Wall Street Journal reports. The law reduces the copayment for mental health services from 50% to 20%, which is consistent with copays for other health services. It will be phased in through 2014.

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Health Buzz: Tomato Warning Lifted and Other Health News

Published July 18, 2008, 9:07 am, US News & World Report

Disease prevention programs, mental health costs, and music as medicine

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Dead famous: The live fast die young cult of film

Published July 17, 2008, 4:27 pm, Independent

There is nothing particularly glamorous about Hollywood stars dying young. Kenneth Anger's scurrilous books Hollywood Babylon and Hollywood Babylon II go out of their way to emphasise just how squalid the premature deaths of many young Hollywood stars really were.

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Medicare changes impact patients' access to mental health care

Published July 17, 2008, 4:03 pm, American Psychological Association

Associated Press July 17, 2008 The major goal of the new Medicare law passed this week was to block a scheduled cut in fees paid to doctors. But there's also plenty in the law that directly affects Medicare beneficiaries.

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Mental Health Costs to Drop After Override of Medicare Veto

Published July 17, 2008, 1:08 pm, US News & World Report

Medicare patients' copays for psychiatric care will fall from 50% to 20% by 2014.

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Galena Park ISD board OKs random drug testing

Published July 16, 2008, 10:03 am, North Channel Sentinel

12:02 p.m. CST/07-16-08 The Galena Park ISD Board of Trustees unanimously adopted a drug testing policy in its July 14 meeting. The district was previously notified that it received a Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

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GP "˜prescribed drug for patient to commit suicide"™

Published July 14, 2008, 6:09 pm, The Herald

A Scottish doctor was accused yesterday of prescribing tablets to an elderly patient to enable her to take her own life.

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